no AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



you who are keeping cows, especially those of you that are keep- 

 ing them for commercial purposes, to study the individual cows 

 in your herd, weigh at each milking every cow's milk separately, 

 add up their records every month for a year, then compare one 

 cow's record with another, and if you are marketing your prod- 

 uct where the butter fat content is the basis of value, test each 

 cow's milk at least four or five times a year, or better yet, take a 

 sample of four milkings in succession each month and make a 

 test of this composite sample and you will find that no work oh 

 your farm today as a dairyman will pay you so much profit for 

 A'Our time. The few hours needed for this w'ork in a year will 

 have a tendency to change the whole character of your dairy and 

 will be of such wide influence as to make you farm better, live 

 better, and think better than ever before, until tke cloud which 

 seems to hover over us dairymen will be lifted and we shall see 

 not only the silver lining but some of the gold that belongs to 

 this great industry of ours. 



