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undertakos to weigh the milk from each cow night and morn- 

 ing, and to take a sanipk^ from each cow's milk at least once 

 a month, night and morning. And the association takes sam- 

 ples for three successive days. Then these samples are sent 

 to a central ]ioint, — nsually a cheese factory or creamery. 

 There a supervisor sent by the government tests the samples 

 of milk, and reports to the farmer each cow's test. The 

 farmer sends to the Department of Agriculture a record of 

 the weight of the milk ; then this is sent in By J. A. Ruddock, 

 Dairy Commissioner, Ottawa. That part is under the direc- 

 tion of the federal part of the government. That costs the 

 farmer nothing. The farmer weighs the milk, provides the 

 samples and provides the scales. There are other phases of 

 this work. If the farmer wishes to conduct yearly tests, then 

 the government sends a man to this farmer's place, sees the 

 cow milked, weighs it, takes samples, tests that ; and this is 

 used as a basis for the year's production of that cow. But he 

 visits the farmer only once a month during the year. But 

 suppose the farmer wishes his cows tested frequently for seven 

 or thirty days, and have a supervisor there all the time, — 

 which, you understand, is an expensive process. For this he 

 pays $2 per day for the services of a man sent, and his travel- 

 ing expenses. Now, in that case there is no doubt about the 

 record. In the other two cases there is room for doubting 

 the record. But there is no advantage to the farmer in cheat- 

 ing himself. But where the tests are given by the association, 

 then we must have this work exact. 



Prof. "\V:\r. P. Brooks (of Amherst). I made up my mind 

 I was not going to say anything, because I want the other 

 peo])le to do the talking. But when the presiding officer 

 touched so pointedly on the cow-testing association, the temp- 

 tation was more than I could resist, because I am so heartily 

 in sympathy with the idea of cow-testing associations ; and I 

 believe that it is high time that we here in Massachusetts 

 took some definite interest in that matter. Professor Dean 

 pointedly alluded to the necessity of weighing the milk and 

 testing the milk in order to find out concerning the productive 

 capacity of the coav; and that is true. While T think he did 



