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men will earn si'vcral limes .")() ii'iiis. lie will shulv the uiuomit of 

 time to do Ihe cliores, see to gettiiij;- Die iiraxinmm aiiioiiiit of results 

 in a li'iven nnnilx-r ol lionis. Tliat is liead work and few men can 

 do tliat head work and do a day's work willi tlieii- hands also. There 

 are farms where it is not ]»ra(ti<-al to do this, hnt many wheie it 

 is and the man who can do it can make money and profit by 

 producing good cows and selling milk at present prices and can 

 make a large individual volume of milk from the cows he keeps 

 and not dilute the herd with the poor cows. The cow testing as- 

 sociation is simply a hook-keeper hired lo do the figuring which 

 you often cannot or do not wish to do. We cannot successfully 

 conduct any other business today without a book-keeper and Ave 

 must keej) strict account in the dairy business also. I want to em- 

 phasize this ])oint, that it is business methods and exact knowledge 

 of detail costs we must have to be successful. 



KEPOET ON .AIILK AND CKEAM EXHIBITS 



By TROF. A. C. KELLY, Washinglon, D. C. 



Ladies and (lentlemen: I am sorry that I have not been able to 

 report on these milk and cream samples before, but milk and cream 

 are not judged as easily as butter is. It lakes some time to do this. 

 I got to town t-^unday night and, commencing Monda}', I have been 

 working on the milk and cream samples and just got finished this 

 afternoon. 



NoAV, we have had up stairs fine exhibits of corn and fine exhibits 

 of fruit, but I want to say that the man who exhibits good clean 

 milk, or rather the man who produces on his farm, good, clean milk 

 is one of the most useful citizens in his community. Now fruit we 

 may regard partly as a luxury, but milk is an absolute necessity. 

 Milk is used not only for adults, but it is the sole food for a great 

 many children, so that the man Avho i)roduces clean milk is not 

 only a useful member of the connuunity but a true scientist, so 

 many things enter into the production of clean milk and good milk, 

 chemistry and bacteriology, that the producer of clean milk is a 

 scientist. 



Now, in the certified milk class the farm scoring the highest rating 

 was the Willow IJrook farm, at Willow Grove, where they scored 96$ 

 points. In the market milk the highest rating was scored by the 

 Pencoyd Farms, with a score of OH points out of a i)ossible hundred. 

 The second place, or those receiving honorable mention with milk, 

 and that means a score of over 9(1 points out of a hundred, were 

 S. E. Morse and Son with a score of 94, J. L. Balderson with a score 

 of 9.3:J and J. IJ. Kendig with a score of 90f . In the cream, the man 

 having the highest scoring cream in the contest was S. E. Morse and 

 Son with a score of 94 jtoints out of a ])ossible hundred. 



Now, may I have a few moments to explain the method of scoring? 

 I have liere some of the nnlk that was entered in the contest. There 



