DAIRY MEETING. l6l 



"The board of management shall, on behalf of the association, 

 engage an expert assistant to attend to the sampling and testing 

 of the milk from the individual cows owned by members of the 

 association. The assistant shall also keep a correct and complete 

 account of the milk and butter yield from, and the quantity of 

 food consumed by each cow. He shall also prepare statements 

 showing the comparative results from the different herds and 

 individual animals of each, in order that a selection may be made 

 of the animals which would appear to be specially valuable for 

 breeding purposes." 



"The association pays the assistant a stated sum per year. He 

 is furnished room and board during his periodical visits, and is 

 conveyed with his equipment to the next farm on his route. 

 When the year draws to its close he prepares a report and a 

 statement showing the results of the year's work. These are 

 laid before the annual general meeting of the association and 

 printed for distribution among the members. These reports con- 

 tain interesting facts, and give rise to considerable discussion 

 and reiiection. They show at a glance the financial standing of 

 each cow in each herd, indicate the yields of milk and butter, and 

 the quantity and cost of feed consumed. One of the early reports 

 of this pioneer association shows that one cow of a certain herd 

 produced 10,183 pounds milk containing 382 pounds of butter, at 

 a cost of $63, whilst another in the same herd gave 4098 pounds 

 of milk, yielding 133 pounds of butter, at a total cost of $50. 

 The duties required of the assistants in Danish associations de- 

 mand that they possess a general knowledge of farming opera- 

 tions, and skill in the work which they are engaged to do, viz., 

 milk sampling and testing, and, also, the accurate handling of the 

 simple mathematics of addition, multiplication and division. 

 Ability to give general advice to the members of the association 

 as to their part of the common work is also a desideratum." 



There seems to be a good field in the State of Maine for this 

 work and many localities are so nicely situated, that the work 

 could be conveniently done. Our creameries could be of great 

 assistance in this work and should be vitally interested, because 

 an increase in production w'ould bring more profit and greater 

 satisfaction to their patrons, together with an added interest in 

 their whole dairy work, and insure greater care in handling and 

 consequently better quality of product. 



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