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The American Jersey Cattle Club, 324 West 23rd St., New York, 

 N. Y. 



The Ayrshire Breeders' Association, Brandon, Vermont. 



The Milking Shorthorn Society, Independence, Iowa. 



The Brown Swiss Cattle Breeders' Association of America, 

 Beloit, Wisconsin. 



Write to the breed association of the breed you are most inter- 

 ested in and get their literature as to the best type, the most popular 

 families and things of this kind. It will take only a two-cent stamp 

 and five minutes' time. The result will be well worth while and 

 helpful because it is important to know the right type of the breed 

 and to get the right ideal in mind. 



152. State associations and state representatives. — Many 

 of these associations have a state secretary in your state who will 

 be only too glad to help you find what you want to get started with 

 and to help you in your sales when you have animals to sell. We 

 have known of very successful state secretaries who have made 

 good in helping the farmers who own the animals of the breed they 

 represent. 



153. Local associations. — Perhaps most important of all is 

 your local county association. After all, it is the combined efforts 

 of the many local units that make any great group a success. 

 Therefore, we should all be members of our local county breeders' 

 associations. Some of these county associations are doing a wonder- 

 ful business. Columbia County, Pennsylvania, is doing well with 

 Guernseys. Waukesha County, Wisconsin, is noted for its Guern- 

 seys and Holsteins. Buyers come to the clean, well-known counties. 

 Your county can be such a county through you and your neighbors. 



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154. Breed magazines. — Every breeder of grades or pure- 

 breds should be a subscriber to his own breed magazine. This will 

 help him immensely in keeping up with what is going on in his 

 breed world and in the dairy world in general. We will not take the 

 space here to list the breed magazines. The names and addresses 

 can be obtained from the breed associations listed above when you 

 are read v. 



