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cow for three days each month. The sum of these 

 weights multiplied by ten will give the year's pro- 

 duction. Take samples for the Babcock test in the 

 second, fourth, and seventh months after the cow 

 freshens. If you add these and divide by three you 

 get the average daily production of butter-fat. 

 Cow-testing Associations. Dairymen who find it 



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difficult to test their own cows are in some instances 

 banding together in cow-testing associations. To 

 this association each farmer contributes a small fee 

 and with this money an expert is employed who 

 spends his time going about among the dairies and 

 testing the cows of each herd. This plan has been 

 used in Holland for many years, and is the reason 

 for tlio great advance in the dairy business in that 



