DAIRY AND SEED IMPROVEMENT MEETINGS. 1/9 



ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT MEETINGS OF 



MAINE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



AND MAINE SEED IMPROVEMENT 



ASSOCIATION 



SOME COW TESTING ASSOCIATION RECORDS 

 AND WHAT THEY PROVE, REGARDING COST OF 

 PRODUCTION OF MILK. 



L. E. McIntire, East Waterford. 



(Stenographic Report.) 



In connection with the Cow Test Association records, they 

 have proven a good many things. They have proven that a 

 great many cows are not profitable ; that is one of the things 

 we have learned. A great many cows in Maine, in my judg- 

 ment — more than one-half — have been kept at a loss. This is, 

 perhaps, due to the high prices of feed and the extra cost of 

 labor. If this is true, something is radically wrong. It is true 

 that our College of Agriculture, our Department of Agricul- 

 ture, the Maine Dairymen's Association and individuals all 

 over the state have done all in their power to help, prompt and 

 encourage the building up of dairying. What is the result? 

 We have hardly held our own. What is the trouble? It is 

 lack of profit in the business. You make dairying profitable 

 and the farmers will take hold of it ; but without profit, no 

 one can do it and live unless he has another line of business to 

 help him out. I do not want to say anything against any of 

 you; I can see some of my good creamery friends here; I 

 want to see them prosper, but I want to see the farmer's end 

 of it prosper. I want to see the farmer get a living by dairy- 

 ing but he has not done it; he is not doing it today. That is 

 the condition, and if this is true, certainly we all ought to work 

 together to better this condition. We need the help of our 

 creamery men; we need the help of anybody who will better 



