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that is being developed in this Hne of work, I will say that this 

 subject is placed upon the program of the dairymen's meeting 

 in four New England states this year. The other two states 

 have no such meeting. The four live dairy associations, in 

 Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut, are all dis- 

 cussing it this year. The movement is sure to come in New 

 England sooner or later and will accomplish the same beneficent 

 work here that it has done elsewhere. 



The association can be adapted to local circumstances and 

 conditions. It may be an association among neighbors who 

 employ a man to do the work for them, or they may each do the 

 weighing and sampling personally, the testing to be done by 

 some one individual. Or, the form which is in vogue in 

 Quebec may be adopted, where the association is under the 

 direct supervision of the Dairy Commissioner of the Dominion. 

 Difference as to details are not essential so long as accurate 

 work is accomplished. 



the; homemade; way. 



The simplest way perhaps, is for the dairymen to get together 

 and do it themselves. They need simply a set of Chatillon 

 scales, some paper, a lead pencil and a resolve to stick to it. 

 One Babcock tester will serve for a number of farmers. 

 Creameries all over New England write that they believe in the 

 movement, and will be glad to make tests at a nominal cost, 

 i'his scheme is simply a band of local people who take the 

 weights of milk themselves, each for himself, who take the 

 samples and who send them to the creamery for testing. There 

 are serious objections to this scheme, as there are to the other 

 schemes. In the first place farmers are not apt to band them- 

 selves together unless there is some incentive for them to do it. 

 The grange movement was slow to get on its feet in Vermont. 

 It was not until the deputies got right out among the people, sat 

 down with them and talked with them as man to man, that they 

 got busy and formed granges. Unless there is some nucleus, 

 some irritant like a mustard plaster, personal work done to get 

 the farmers to thinking about these things, they will "not, as a 

 rule, get together and form associations. Then, secondly, 

 human nature is human nature. When the tests and weights 

 are made each farmer for himself, consciously or unconsciously 



