1594 Report of Farmers' Institutes 



Professor Wing agrees to approve advanced registry tests made 

 by testers employed by cow testing associations when such testers 

 are approved by him. The " follow up " work in this connection, 

 growing out of the work of the institutes, is to be reported to the 

 Director of Farmers' Institutes. 



In all cases where considerable numbers in a cow testing asso- 

 ciation wish to do advanced registry work, it is very desirable 

 that the association be organized in such a way that the tester can 

 be changed from month to month and if this is done the increased 

 cost will be nominal. This increased cost would be paid by the 

 owners of the animals and not by the association. 



The greatest impetus to improved dairying has come from the 

 use of pure-bred animals and its importance should, therefore, 

 be emphasized. There are 1,500,000 cows in the state, and there 

 is no reason why at least one-quarter of these cows should not be 

 pure bred. 



Emphasis should be laid on the importance of raising dairy 

 cows to sell. The production of the dairy cow as a cow is im- 

 proving and gives promise of being most profitable if carried on 

 according to the above lines. 



THE MILKING MACHINE 



Whether a milking machine would be profitable or practical 

 depends upon the kind of a man who uses it. If a man is careless 

 and does not notice the little things, he will not succeed with the 

 machine, but if he will pay attention to the essential rules of 

 operation and use care in every particular, it can be successfully 

 employed. A man should have about fifteen cows before he could 

 economically operate a milking machine. 



In one case the owner of a milking machine arranged to have 

 one man operate it all the time, keeping the other help in the 

 field. This one man, with a boy to handle the milk, operated 

 three machines and milked forty-five cows. 



The time required in milking is about four minutes to a cow 

 by machine, eight minutes by hand ; including the weighing, clean- 

 ing and all things that enter into the process. 



