58 The Bulletin. 



STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The dairymen of the State met during the Farmers' Convention 

 and carried out the subjoined program : 



PROGRAM DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. 



7 :30 P. M. — Business Meeting and Address by President R. H. Gower. 



FRIDAY, AUGUST 28. * 



8 :00 A. M— Judging Dairy Cattle. 



9 :00 A. M. — Cottage Cheese Making ; Butter Making ; Skimmed Milk ; Butter- 

 milk Manufacturing. 

 10 :00 A. M.— How to Make Farm Butter Making Profitable— R. L. Shuford, 



Catawba County. 

 11 :00 A. M.— Marketing of Milk and Cream— Prof. William R. Saunders, Vir- 

 ginia. 

 12 :00 M. — Silos and Silage, by B. H. Rawl, Dairy Division, U. S. Department 



of Agriculture. 

 2 :00 P. M.— ^Keeping Herd Records — J. W. Robinson, Catawba County. 

 3 :00 P. M— Relation of Dairying to Soil Fertility— Prof. C. L. Newman, 



North Carolina A. and M. College. 

 4 :00 P. M. — Management of Dairy Herd — Prof. John Michels, North Carolina 

 A. and M. College. 



The following papers, chiefly relating to dairying, were read at the 

 Dairymen's Meeting or at the Farmers' Convention proper : 



CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY DEMONSTRATION WORK IN NORTH 



CAROLINA. 



By J. A. Conover, United States and State Departments of Agriculture. 



July 1, 1906, the United States Department of Agriculture, in co-operation 

 with the State Department of Agriculture, began dairy demonstration work 

 in this State. This work is not for the purpose of gathering statistics, as 

 many suppose, but to promote the dairy industry in this State. Assistance 

 has been given along two principal lines of work. viz. : the building of barns 

 and silos and the improvement of herds by a systematic weighing and testing 

 of the milk from each cow. 



It has been shown that the only way of knowing how much profit a cow 

 will make is to weigh the milk each day, test once or twice a month and keep 

 account of the feed eaten. There are many cows in this State that do not pay 

 for the feed they eat, and yet their owners complain because the dairy busi- 

 ness is not profitable. 



January 1, 1907, the work of keeping records was begun with thirteen 

 farmers ; more were added during the year, and for various reasons some 

 were dropped ; only nine herds finished the year's work, with a total of 103 

 cows. Of the nine herds completing a year's record only one was composed 

 entirely of pure breds, the remaining herds being made up mostly of scrubs 

 and grades with a few pure breds. 



