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help given then. Again, in due time, a third visit was made 

 and the sanitary score card, adopted by the Dairy Division, 

 Department of Agriculture, was used on all those dairies and 

 in every case where the suggestions were adopted the score was 

 very good. In each and every case the dairymen had a score of 

 their methods and equipment left with them, so they could see 

 wherein they needed to improve. 



DATRV TESTING ASSOCIATIONS. 



It has been my desire to continue this educational work so 

 ably started by my predecessors, and advance some wherever 

 I coidd. One new Dairy Testing Association has been 

 formed. This was organized March i8th, 191 1. with the fol- 

 lowing officers : 



President, Arch D. Leavitt. Turner. 

 Secretary. Fred P. Ricker. Turner. 

 Tester. C. W. Rowe. Turner. 



It commenced to do actual cow test work. May 15th. with two 

 hundred eighty-two cows pledged. 



Through the towns of Turner. Turner Center and Buckfield, 

 where this association is located, there are a great many 

 large dairies and the dairymen in general grasped this as the 

 most economical way to study the production of the dairy cow. 



Some work has been done, by means of correspondence, to- 

 ward reviving the Dairy Testing Association located in Win- 

 throp, Monmouth and Readfield. and in general the sentiment 

 was very strong toward re-organization ; still, for lack of time 

 that work has not been completed. 



In regard to the associations that were organized prior to my 

 connection with the Department. I have attended the meetings 

 whenever possible and have assisted along dairy lines, getting 

 the dairymen interested in the workings of the association and 

 the welfare of their herds, and persuading them to study the 

 herd records. 



At each dairy meeting that I attended during the first part of 

 the year there seemed to be a great deal of sentiment toward 

 having a "Register of Merit" formulated by the Dair>- Division, 

 the same to receive the approval of the different associations. 

 Your Dairy Instnictor, seeing that a Register of this kind 



