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scrub sires in 1907 will be bred to registered bulls in 1908 and 1909, as 



the result of five months' work of one field agent. 



The incorporated association seems to give greatest promise of perma- 

 nency, but is the most difficult to organize, owing to the difficulty in 

 getting the members to decide upon one breed. Failing to organize one 

 of these associations in a community we would prefer some other form 

 of organization, rather than none at all. In some cases, as at Hudson, 

 Michigan, a large number of breeders formed a somewhat different form 

 of association, pledging themselves to use only Holstein sires, but each 

 member will procure a bull. In other cases, as at Lawrence, Michigan, 

 associations have been formed, the members of which have pledged them- 

 selves to use registered males only in all their breeding operations. 

 Neither of the two last mentioned plans are apparently as binding or 

 permanent as the first, and the last one is liable to lead to the use of a 

 multiplicity of breeds or cross-breeding in a locality rather than the 

 development of special features. 



R. S. SHAW, Director. 



W. F. RAVEN, Field Agent. 



