48 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



I'ied out iu the following counties : Kent, Gratiot, Clinton, Washtenaw, 

 Livingston, Genesee, Macomb, Charlevoix, Emmet, Delta, Marquette, 

 Ontonagon, and several other districts throughout the State. The cam- 

 paigns have been highly successful. While it is difficult to gauge results 

 iu a concrete form, an}' one who is familiar with the work at all knows 

 that there is a great deal of good accomplished by putting on these 

 intensive campaigns, giving out information on the best possible methods 

 used in putting the dairy industry on a more efficient basis. 



One measure of the extension work during the past year is shown by 

 the fact that on June 30. 1922 there Tvere 17 cow testing associations in 

 operation and on June 30, 1923 there were 60 associations organized and 

 56 in active operation. There has been a great increase in the interest 

 as well as the number of cow testing associations during the past year. 

 While this work has been started in the State for some time, it has not 

 been developed to a very great extent until the past year. There is now 

 a very heavy demand for associations to be organized iu every county 

 and if the present force can possibly do the work, there is no question but 

 there will be more than 100 cow testing associations iu operation in 

 another year. 



More than 100 pure bred bulls have been placed by members of the staff 

 and a large number of co-oi)erative bull associations have been organized. 



ADVANCED REGISTRY WORK. 



The amount of official testing work conducted this year compared with 

 that conducted the previous year, shows a decrease. This year there were 

 893 seven day records on Holsteiu Friesian cattle forwarded to Mr. Gard- 

 ner's office and 218 records which were not forwarded to Mr. (larduer, 

 due to the fact the cows did not equal their previous record, or not high 

 enough so that the owners wished to have them reported. There were 

 119 thirty day records and about 10 tliirty |)ound records. The ]>revious 

 year there 1,230 seven day records, 183 thirty day records, and 12 thirty 

 l)ouud records. 



Semi-official or yearly work was carried on in herds of the various 

 breeds throughout the state as follows: 



Breed . . Number of Herds 



Holstein-Friesiau -7 



Jersey 19 



Guernsey^ ' • • • 23 



Ayrshire 2 



Brown Swiss 1 



The Honor List published by the Holstein-Friesiau Association of Amer- 

 ica includes 111 Michigan rec-ords, or 9.19'/^ of the total number on the 

 Honor List. This includes the world's milk record for seven days in the 

 junior 1 vear old class, and American record for tliirty days milk in the 

 junior 1 year old class. There liave also been several v^tate records made, 

 divided among the Jersey, Guernsey and Holsteins. 



• The offices of the Dairy Department have been moved from the Agri- 

 cultural Building to the Dairy Building and the space that was not pre- 



