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bers. He makes a visit to each place once a month, and obtains data 

 from which he can judge the individuality of each cow in the herd. 

 He remains twenty lour hours on each farm, and while he is there 

 he takes part in the feeding, and weighs the feed each cow con- 

 sumes. He also weighs the amount of milk each cow produces 

 and he tests the richness of this milk with a Babcock tester. He 

 does this night and morning at regular intervals twelve times during 

 a -year. And in this way he learns how much milk and butter fat 

 each cow produces in a year, how niuch feed she consumes, and how 

 much it costs to keep her. The farmer is furnished a complete 

 record of each individual in his herd, and with this as a basis is 

 enabled intelligently to select those for breeding purposes, Avhich 

 show the highest development of dairying tendencies. And first of 

 all he learns which ones of his cows do not produce enough milk 

 and butter fat to pay for the feed they consume. He learns to 

 know his "star boarders." You know a "star boarder" is one who 

 never misses a meal, and never pays a cent, and we have entirely 

 too many of that class of "star boarders" in our herds. If we had 

 not, the average production would be a great deal higher than it is 

 to-day. 



I have on this chart ten years record of one herd, and it shows 

 what can be accomplished through membership in a cow testing 

 association. 



Herd B, Owned by Aug. Kinch, Beltaberga, Sweden 



First, — 7v) 



Second, i 28 



Third, 

 Fourtli, 

 Piftti, .. 

 Sixth, .. 

 Seventh, 

 Eighth. 

 Ninth, .. 

 Tenth, . 



Increase, 



4C 

 5.5 

 61 

 64 

 71 

 79 

 77 

 79 



2,421 

 2,695 

 2,566 

 2,507 

 2,587 

 2,743 

 3,035 

 3,111 

 8,075 

 8,051 



630 



7,320 



7,905 



9,003 



9,984 



10,584 



11,236 



11.333 



11.486 



11,023 



11.399 



3.05 

 3.13 

 3.20 

 3.18 

 3.22 

 3.22 

 3.21 

 3.18 

 3.17 

 3.34 



245 

 272 

 317 

 350 

 376 

 399 

 401 

 403 

 385 

 421 



302 



293 

 350 

 398 

 407 

 409 

 372 

 369 

 358 

 374 



4,079 



.29 



176 



72 



10.1 

 10.1 

 12.3 

 13.9 

 14.5 

 14.5 

 13.2 

 13.0 

 12.5 

 13.8 



3.7 



19.8 

 19.8 

 16.2 

 14.3 

 13.8 

 13.7 

 15.1 

 15.4 

 16.0 

 14.5 



-5.3 



You will notice that Mr. Kinch had seventy cows to begin with, 

 when he joined the association. After being a member one year, 

 he learned that only twenty-eight of them were good enough so as 

 to be used for breeding purposes, and so he promptly sold off the 

 balance of the herd. He bred these twenty-eight cows to sires whose 

 dams and granddams showed superior dairy qualities, and raised 

 their heifer calves. He had some heifer calves from those twenty- 

 eight cows on hand which were added to the herd so that in the third 

 year he had forty-six cows. This number kept increasing until in 



