Show I 1 VALUE OF COW TESTING associations k IN 8 N V GREATEST benefactor BENE FACTon THE COW am in tho the united states department of lz agriculture tat at the appearance of it a dairy c cow ow hot ot tie be depended on to indicate her luction ebion of milk Is illustrated by a ou condee conducted ted under the ices of tho the dairy division ol of the ent with a herd of nine cows ibbe e national dairy show held retty y at springfield mass years record of milk and butter fareedy ready had been made for all the x ot of the herd during the show etc records re of production product lon and 1 consumption were kept and in ia ry case the previous records were caged some of the cows were or dalry dairy type yet were good pro ers S others were of good dairy yet were poor producers still as of similar apPe ap perance had great If ferent records of the last named 3 results suits of good management feere nos 8 and 9 litany asperl 1 selected no 9 as the T of the two but the records ed that for the last year no 8 pounds of milk and of compared with pounds of and of tat fat for no 9 this id as an object lesson to the hun I 1 8 of people who dally viewed the in that good dairy alry type la is always associated with large proton on and that poor dairy type does indicate dacate lack of large yield i cost of records atiat at does it cost to keep records t ia common question of the dalry dairy ia cow testing associations e the above quoted records atre were made the charge Is a month for each cow and in addition the th e board of the tester for one day each mouth month with feed labor and live stock S so high it certainly Is imperative to eliminate every unnecessary expense like the boarder or robber cow that falls fails to pay for even her feed in the big bl room at the dairy show where the cows were were several hundred comfortable seats here several toes times each day well known dairymen from various parts of the country talked to the largo large audiences on dairy problems illustrating their remarks with the cows of the demonstration herd especial emphasis was laid upon the value of records in economical manti gement bull associations operative cooperative co bull associations wet carefully described and their many advantages explained that it wag wa possible to have high class bulls of the tn finest breeding for the use of a dairyman with only a few cows seemed to many farmers as too good to be true especially nhea the cost was even less than ln in the case of scrub bulls in this connection the charts that illustrated lustra lust rated td the conditions at roland koland la ia before and after the organization of a bull association elicited much interest at that place for a yearly investment of each the members have the use of five bulls for ten years on the walls of the demonstration room were pictures ot famous dairy animals charts showing results or of record keeping etc adjoining were skeleton milk or dairy houses with the sides only partially finished to show the construction also a model of a dairy barn and of a silo in the milk houses was dairy equipment and a man in charge answered questions on dairying and explained the construction I 1 of these and all other kinds of dairy buildings at regular periods demonstrations in the sterilization of milk utensils were given with the inexpensive farm sterilizer described in r farmers bulletin these demonstrations were well attended there was also keen interest in every part of the demonstrations as may be judged from the fact that about people listened to lectures and fully viewed the exhibits |