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how. But we have a Hve man in his place. So I say that an 

 organization can be effective, but it needs one man who will 

 put some time into it and will go around and notify his neighbors, 

 who will take his horse and go off for miles. The second month 

 our tester said he hadn't enough to do. I said, 'T will get enough 

 for you to do." I harnessed my horse and picked up six or 

 seven days' work for him, in one day. Any man could have done 

 it who would take his team and take the time. If you have one 

 man who will say that this thing shall be done you can organize 

 a cow testing association and after you have run it a year or 

 two you will not want to drop it. But there is a difficulty, which 

 is this : The dairy associations of the state have not been able 

 to pay the official tester such a salary as will command the ser- 

 vices of the right kind of a man ; and when I say the right kind 

 of a man I do not mean a man big enough to be president of 

 the United States or even Dairy Instructor. It is difficult to 

 get men because of the fact that the secondary schools are put- 

 ting in agricultural courses and they take for instructors the 

 graduates from the college and pay them a thousand dollars 

 a year or more. And the farm demonstration work takes the 

 class of men that we would like to have and they are paid twelve 

 or fifteen hundred dollars. Now and then we can get hold of 

 a good man and keep him. He gets with us $35 a month 

 and board and as much more as he can make. If he is smart 

 he can make more. I presume the difficulty in securing a good 

 man is the reason why some of the associations have been dis- 

 continued. I presume that will happen to us one of these days, 

 but it will not as long as we gan get a man at the salary we can 

 pay. I would like to say that if this state had interest enough 

 in the dairy business to put enough money into the cow test 

 association work, above what the ordinary dair\^man is able to 

 pay, to make the salary of the tester adequate, it would do 

 wonders in the advancement of the dairy interests of the State 

 of Maine. 



Ques. If a cow is not in the advanced registry test, do you 

 find that it is best to feed all that cow will eat, for grain ? 



Ans. No, I do not think it is. The champion Jersey made a 

 wonderful record for butter fat but if her butter fat had been 

 sold at the market prices she would not have paid her board. 

 Of course there is a medium. 



