52 Daiky Demonstration Work in ISTew York State 



This test covers a period of not more than 365 consecutive days, 

 and must be authenticated by applying, at not less than monthly 

 intervals, the Babcock test. 



SEMIOFFICIAL OR REGISTER-OF-MERIT TESTING OF PURE-BRED COWS 



By agreement with the Ayrshire and Jersey breed associations, 

 the Bureau of Farmers' Institutes of the Xew York State Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, in cooperation with county farm bureaus, is 

 prepared to conduct semiofficial or registeT-of-merit tests through 

 the channels of the regular dairy improvement associations. Such 

 tests are supervised by the state schools of agriculture, which by 

 arrangement authenticate the work of the regular dairy demon- 

 stration agents and report the results of the tests to the proper 

 breed officials. The association rules covering the breed to which 

 the cows belong are followed by the tester in doing his work. 



A^%en, in the case of pure-bred cows, the officials of the respec- 

 tive breed associations do not accept the work of dairy demon- 

 stration agents in supervising semiofficial tests, or when the 

 owners do not care to enter their cows for the same, the director 

 of farmers' institutes will issue a register-of-merit certificate, 

 provided the following rules as recommended by the Official Dairy 

 Instructors' Association and amended to meet the conditions of a 

 dairy improvement association are observed, and the cows make a 

 production as follows : 



If the test is commenced the day the cow is two' years old, or 

 previous to that day, she must produce, within one year from the 

 date the test begins, 250.5 pounds of butter fat. For each day 

 the cow is over two years old at the beginning of her year's test, 

 the amount of butter fat she must produce in the year is fij^ed by 

 adding one-tenth (0.1) of' a pound for each such day to the 250.5 

 pounds required when two years old. The ratio of increase 

 applies until the cow is five years old at the beginning of her test, 

 when the required amount will have reached 360 pounds, which 

 will be the amount of butter fat required of all cows five years old 

 or over. The standards are based upon one complete year's record 

 from the time of beginning, regardless of any time which may be 

 lost by being dry or calving during that period. 



