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a man losint? \evy much from lios? cholera. The trouble comes by not 

 recognizing the disease soon enough and by delaying the treatment too 

 long. There will be some losses the best you can manage, but if you 

 are prompt in reporting the disease, if you treat it promptly, your 

 losses will not be very heavy. I don't know that there is anything 

 else unless you want to ask some questions about the work. I feel 

 that it is the purpose of all the departments of the State to take citi- 

 zens into their confidence more in reference to doing work in the fu- 

 ture. We do the work the best we can, we do not pretend to know 

 it all, we are ready for suggestions at any time, and if any of you 

 know how work can be done better and how better results can be ob- 

 tained, we are glad to receive suggestions at any time, either by 

 letter or in meetings of this kind, and if any of you have any ques- 

 tions to ask, I will be glad to answer them if I can. If not, I wish to 

 thank you for your attention. 



KEPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DAIRY AND DAIRY 



PRODUCTS 



By B. F. WAMBOLD, Sellersville 



American livestock producers rarely, if ever, encountered more 

 adversities in one single year than they experienced in the year 1915 

 just past. In the face of all misfortunes, including foot and mouth 

 disease, together with the unsettled conditions of commerce result- 

 ing from the European war, still there have been evidences of the bet- 

 terment of the dairyman's condition. The Cow Testing Association, 

 co-operative buying and marketing, especially was the improvement 

 noticed in the co-ope'rative creamery interests which furnished the 

 dairyman the full value of his product. 



The Cow Testing Association has opened the eyes of many a dairy- 

 man and gave him a firmer foundation. When one is approached and 

 asked to identify with himself the organization, seemingly realizing 

 his financial ability to unite, he is very apt to suggest the name or 

 names of his more prosperous neighbor or neighbors, whose interest 

 might be enlisted. The Association is designed to furnish informa- 

 tion which is worth gold to the dairyman. The poorer his herd and 

 weaker his finances the more eager should he be to ascertain the leak- 

 age in his business and seek the information to aid him in determin- 

 ing which one cow or more should become the basis of his futu're 

 and more profitable dairj^ Many a dairyman has told me that his 

 cow produced a bucket of milk a day — never once making mention of 

 the size, whether an 8, 10 or 12 quart bucket. Accuracy in figures 

 alone makes the calculation worthy of note or notice. If he could de- 

 finitely state that his cow produces 30, 40 or 50 lbs. daily, how much 

 more satisfactory? And, if at the end of the year he could supply a 

 complete record of production of 3,000 or 8,000 lbs. with a 3| or 4% 

 test, what an advantage and satisfaction indeed. 



