COW-TESTING ASSOCIATIONS 



This work is now firmlv established in the state, as the follow- 

 ing list of 45 associations indicates : 



The following list shows the associations under operation, June 

 30, 1916. During nearly the whole of the past year, however, 

 an additional association — Chaffee-jSardinia, Erie County- — has 

 been in operation. On completing the year, June 1, 1916, the 

 association was disorganized and several of the members joined 

 the^Java-Chaffee association in Wyoming County. 



Again, as previously, Mr. J. A. Ennis spent a portion of the 

 winter at the Alfred School of AgTiculture, giving special instruc- 

 tion to dairy students who wish to take up cow-testing work. 



As a result of a matter presented at the normal institute (page 

 21345 ), Assistant Farm Bureau Director H. E. Babcock was given 

 charge of cow-testing work as it related to farm bureaus, with the 

 result that an entirely new organization has taken place. This 

 is set forth in Bulletin 85, " Dairy Improvement AYork in New 

 York State," recently published by the Bureau of Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes, which may be had on request. Because of the existence 

 of this bulletin, less space than usual is devoted to this subject in 

 the present report. Hereafter, these organizations will be known 

 as dairy improvement associations, instead of cow-testing associa- 

 tions. This embraces a wider field of work and also prevents con- 

 founding it with testing cows for tuberculosis, as has been done in 

 some instances. 



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