240 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



SUMMARY. 



No. Attendance. 



Farm Visits 38 



Demonstration Meetings 43 8G3 



Lecture Meetings 37 2,363 



Extension Schools 11 



East Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1917. 



REPOKT OF EXTENSION WORK IN COW TESTING 



ASSOCIATIONS. 



BY J. A. WALDRON. 



The Cow Testing Association "vvork has been carried on during the 

 past 3^ear in cooperation with the Dairy division of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. 



The method of procedure has been to aid in the organization, reorgani- 

 zation, and supervision of cow testing associations; to give instruction 

 in the improvement, feeding and care of dairy cattle in extension schools 

 during the winter, and in other public gatherings throughout the year. 



July 1, 1916, there were ten cooperative coav testing associations in 

 Michigan with a membership of 250 farmers owning 3,529 cows. The 

 associations that have completed a year's work since July 1, 1916, have 

 been reorganized, with the excejition of one division of the Allegan asso- 

 ciation that has discontinued operations temporaril3\ 



Five new associations have been organized and have begun work since 

 July 1, 1916. One association, the vSaginaw Valley, which had been or- 

 ganized prior to that date began work during the year. 



The following fifteen cooperative Cow Testing Associations were in 

 operation in Michigan July 1, 1917: 



1 — Newaygo County Cooperative Cow Testing Association. 



2 — ^Kent County Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No. 1. 



3 — Allegan County Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No. 1. 



4 — St. Clair Co. Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No, 1. 



5 — Lenawee County Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No. 1. 



6 — Berrien County Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No. 1. 



7 — Berrien County Cooperative Coav Testing Association. No. 2. 



8 — Kalamazoo Co. Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No. 1. 



9 — South Ottawa Co. Cooperative Cow Testing Association. 

 10 — Lenawee County Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No. 2. 

 11 — 1st Cloverland Cooperative Cow Testing Asso. (Menominee Co.) 

 12 — St. Joseph County Cooperative Cow Testing Association. 

 13 — Van Buren Co. Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No. 1, 

 14 — Saginaw Valley Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No. 1. 

 15— Branch County Cooperative Cow Testing Association. No. 1. 



All of the associations had a full membership and were on a sound 

 financial basis. There were in these fifteen associations, July 1, 1917, 

 408 farmers cooperating, with 5,642 cows on test. 



