330 AGRICULTURE OV MAINE. 



REPORT OF ADVANCED REGISTRY WORK. 



Prof. L. S. Corbett. 

 (Stenographic Report.) 



It is said that more attention should be given to the advanced 

 registry work than is being given at the present time. I have 

 been talking with Prof. Rasmussen, as he has been doing this 

 work in New Hampshire. He has some of the same troubles 

 we have, but not so many. Most of our advanced registration 

 is done through the Co'w Testing Association testers. Some- 

 times the work is not graded just a^ it should be. If this work 

 is worth doing at all, it is worth doing right. I have sometimes 

 held up records, wondering if I cared to sign my name or not. 

 Records are all marked up with red ink, because they have not 

 been done correctly. If they were working for me, they would 

 be through. A tester arrives on the place where cow testing is to 

 be done, which is no small matter, and decides that cows shall be 

 admitted to the registry. Advanced registry work has been of 

 a poor order. Other associations have much to say about it ; 

 they say we must have better work. Who is heard? The 

 breeder is the one who is heard ; and he has paid his money and 

 received nothing from it, like putting money into a dry well. 

 I think the only thing we can do is to appreciate what some of 

 the testers have to do. 



I have a letter in my pocket that was given me by a man who 

 is doing advanced registry work, saying that the work woiild 

 be put under personal supervision. That is. supervisors 

 would have to be sent from Portland to check up work done by 

 a Cow Testing Association man. I do not know what we can 

 do about this; I just want to state the facts in the case. There 

 is no money appropriated by the State Cow Testing Associa- 

 tion, by tlie breeders or anyone else, to carry on this work. At 

 the present time the checking up of this work. etc.. is taken' 

 out of the appropriation for the Department of Animal Indus- 



