Show BULL associations GAINING in count up for last fiscal year an increase of 57 per cent Is noted more in south in the count up of bull associations association bs for the last fiscal year made by the dairy of the united states department part ment of agriculture asso associations clat ions are found all over the country there are now where there were ere ony only 78 the year before this Is an increase of 57 per cent thirty ot of the 48 states in the union are on the list associations are not equally numerous in all states stater however ho weier for four Alq Ala hamn hanin pennsylvania penn alvania mississippi A bull should be selected to improve imp rove the dairy qualities of the herd he Is to head and south carolina furnish nearly halt half of the total the number of associations found in each of these four states Is as follows alabama 7 pennsylvania 21 mississippi 11 and south carolina 17 three of these lending leading states tire are in the cotton belt dairying is comparatively new in that part of the country and the men going into the business are building on the right foundations from the r tart start one of the important foundations of effective and lucrative dairying Is cooperation and the extension work carried on by the dairy division and by the various state agricultural colleges has been the means of introducing efficient methods at the outset wherever dairying Is taken up in the south pennsylvania is an old dairy state but has taken to the bull association idea in a remarkable manner and has in fact the largest number dumber of nil all I 1 |