80 State Board of Agriculturk, tfec. 



ASSOCIATKD DAIRYING- 



BY C. W. MUDGETT, OF WEATHERSFIELD. 



The dairy has become an important branch of national 

 industry. It is rapidly spreadinoj over new lields, and is 

 engaging the attention of farmers in tiie Western, North- 

 western and Middle States, wherever the lands are adapted 

 to grazing, and there are S2:)rings and streams of living wa- 

 ter. The dairy districts, though comparatively limited^ 

 embrace a larger area than has been generally supposed. 



It is true there are extensive plains at the South and South- 

 west, where the business of dairying cannot be carried on, 

 but broad belts and isolated patches of land are scattered 

 over our vast domain, well adapted to grazing, and such 

 lands, when taken in the aggregate, cover a wide extent of 

 territory. Tliere are two causes that have been operating, 

 in the last dozen years, to stimulate the development of this 

 branch of industry, and have caused it to assume propor- 

 tions that give it a distinctive feature of nationality. 



The first is a large and increasing foreign demand for 

 dairy products ; the second is the American system of 

 " associated dairies," now brought to such wonderful per- 

 fection that the business is being readily introduced into 

 new sections, with all the ease and certainty of success in 

 producing the qualities attained in old dairy districts. 



