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try. The University does not give us any money to handle this 

 thing. The money we get to run the University of Maine on is 

 for the additional work, and should not be spent this way. It 

 is not riglit. We have tried to keep the thing going, but most 

 of you appreciate that at the present time you are paying about 

 airyou can afford, to put your cows into the advanced registry. 

 We will put on a tax of about $2 to cover overhead charges, 

 but it would hurt a good many, and they would not have their 

 cows registered. We cannot afford to send a man down into 

 the southern part of the state to test cows at an expense of $25, 

 until a man has a large herd. We want men to have their cows 

 registered, but how are you going to do it? We have been 

 doing this work, hut the work is assuming big proportions, and 

 Prof. Rasmussen is up against the same proposition. 



The rules say that for some associations the bill will be sent 

 from the supervisors to the state offfcial, from the state official 

 to the breeders' association, from the breeders' association to 

 the breeder; the breeder pays the association, the association 

 pays the state official, and the state official pays the tester. By 

 the time all that is done about six months have elapsed, and 

 the $25 man hung up for want of money. I have in a good 

 many cases not followed the rules, but have sent the bills di- 

 rectly from the tester to the owner of the cows, who has sent 

 me the money to pay the tester, thereby saving some of the 

 work, but received letters from the association saying tliey "had 

 ndt received hills, and why? It was not according to the 

 rules.'' We all have our troubles; the breeders' association 

 will probably say they are under-financed ; there is no chance 

 to get any money from them. I think we can swing the thing 

 as it is, until the work grows into higger proportions. I do not 

 feel like making any definite recommendations about how this 

 is to be done. 



Dr. Woods: Why not refer this to the various organizations 

 to be reported a year from now, to devise some ways and 

 means ? 



Proi^. Corhett: That might be a good idea, and I do not 

 want to see any more cost attached to this thing. The more 

 the cost, the fewer the coKvs, and the less money. We have 

 nearly as many cows as the State of Massachusetts, which is a 



