REPORT OI' DAIRY DIVISION. 25 



President, A. J. Foster, Canton Point. 

 Secretary, A. H. Adams, Canton Point. 



Oxford and Cumberland Jersey Breeders' Association : 

 President, H. \V. Evans, North Bridgton. 

 Secretary, C. S. Hamlin, Harrison, R. F. D. 



Androscoggin County Holstein-Friesian Breeders' Associa- 

 tion : 



President, P. AI. Austin, Danville Junction. 

 Secretary, Geo. B. Carvelle, Lewiston. 



These associations plan to hold quarterly meetings, at which 

 time live stock problems are discussed. When the weather will 

 allow, animals are scored, the work being led usually by Prof. 

 Campbell or myself. 



One of the local breeders' associations has already taken steps 

 to secure extra good animals for use in the association. I be- 

 lieve there are many sections of the State where a Community 

 Bull Association, organized on a plan similar to the one used 

 in ^Michigan, could be adopted to the great advantage of live 

 stock work. During my vacation, I personally visited several 

 of these associations in Michigan, and I am satisfied that a 

 similar plan could be adapted to Maine conditions. In these 

 bull associations, men owning 120 to 180 cows organize, select 

 a breed of sires to be used, divide themselves into three blocks 

 and purchase the best animals which they can buy for the money 

 raised by subscription among themselves. Each animal thus 

 has a group of 40 to 60 cows to serve during the year ; he is 

 used in this block two years, and then changed to another block, 

 thus the purchasing of three animals gives six years' service. 

 I think there are a number of communities where the adoption 

 of such a plan would be the most practicable method for rapidly 

 improving dairy stock. 



The work in both the testing and breeders' associations means 

 a great deal to the dairy industry of the State. The people are 

 taking hold of the plans rapidly and there is more call for 

 a.^sociations than can be filled, especially with the present short- 

 age of desirable men for testers, two of the men in the work 

 at the present time coming from out of the State. 



I have planned to attend each meeting of these associations 

 myself, but occasionally some other representative has been 

 sent. J think it desirable for each tester to be visited in the 



