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Dr. Smith : Then we cannot do anything about it, as the 

 cow testing men insist on men from the University to do this 

 work.- In two years in our institution we can teach men to 

 add, subtract, and read and write, and the man ought to be 

 able to master the Babcock: test in two years' time. This is an 

 important matter, and we cannot select your men or take them. 



Prop. Corbett : I did not ask anybody to take the cow test- 

 ing men ; in a great many instances they have a great deal more 

 than they can do. They work out the records of the association, 

 besides other work. I think none of the cow testing associa- 

 tion men care to stay long on a job if they can get something 

 else to do. I am not going to enter into any argument with 

 anyone, about the methods o'f education at the institution ; 

 it is inadvertent to the subject. I made that statement that 

 the work was not correct, and if I was hiring men, I would 

 be their boss. 



Dr. Woods : Have there been any changes in the cow testing 

 rules during the last three years? 



Answer: No. 



Dr. Woods : Then the association has a perfect right to say 

 that the men shall not work. I say this because, for more than 

 a dozen years, I handled this testing business in Maine, and un- 

 less there have been changes it is entirely in Prof. Corbett's 

 hands to say whether these men shall work or not. 



Question : It seems all the men employed by this associa- 

 tion are recommended by the head of the Department at Orono, 

 and it seems that he ought not tO' recommend men unless they 

 are acceptable to the association for whom they work. 



Mr. Adams : I think these men are competent, but have so 

 much to do that they cannot do it thoroughly. 



Mr. : I do not know how much work a man ought to 



do, but it seems to me that the man employed by the Cumber- 

 land county association, who comes to my place and does the 

 work, does not have his time half occupied, and I have 12 to 16 

 cows all the time. I know he is not overworked, but some of 

 them have outside work to do, aside from the cow testing work. 



Dr. Ness : As I recall it. Prof. Corbett did make the remark 

 that the men were not efficient, but in his defence, I will say 

 that the men are not always competent. We engaged a man in 



