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(Unit suppose the fanners arc very mucli interested in finding 

 ont which cows arc profitable and which are not. Yet if I 

 sent out a letter saying that I would give every farmer a cer- 

 tain amount of money if he would do this, I presume my 

 table would have been deluged with letters. I believe thor- 

 oughly in cow-testing associations, and I believe it is necessary 

 for some power, some authority, to take hold of this subject 

 and push it. In C^anada they have the general government. 

 Some power nuist take hold of it and interest the farmers ; 

 make a personal canvass and show them what the object of the 

 organization is; and then, it seems to me, they ought to be 

 willing to pay at least one-half of the cost, if not the whole 

 cost, which can probably be reduced to a very small amount. 

 I am not as much a believer in the very low cost of these tests 

 as some others. I have figured it out, and I think with the 

 conditions in Massachusetts that one, two or three dollars a 

 cow would do. I cannot see how it can be done for less than 

 a dollar. 



(Question. Is the 10 cents per cow you referred to on the 

 nundier of cows belonging to those in the testing associations, 

 or the total number of cows ? 



Professor Dean. It was assumed that, if they could get a 

 sufficient number of farmers, and I think about 500 cows to 

 the association, that 10 cents per cow would pay the actual 

 cost. I am not sure, but think the government purposes to 

 pay the services of the official tester, that is, the expense of 

 getting a man to do the work. I do not think your State 

 officers could employ any funds they have to better advantage 

 than in working out some such scheme as that, and controlling 

 the work, and putting the cost to the farmer down as low as 

 possible, because I realize that ever}" dollar the farmer gets 

 means more to him than to a professional man or a manufac- 

 turer. When the farmers realize the actual value it is to 

 them, they will be willing to pay for it, but you must, at the 

 beginning, make the cost very low to them, as it is with us. 



Mr. Habwood. There's one point brought out by the lec- 

 turer which has been somewhat eclipsed by another, and that 

 was in reference to selecting cows by points, or by their exter- 



