Part II 



DAIRYING 



CARE OF THE DAIRY AND 

 ITS PRODUCTS 



137. 2. Cow Testing Associations. In about the year 1805 a 

 Danish farmer's wife, it is claimed, suggested that both time and 

 money might be saved if a number of farmers in a neighborhood 

 should club together and employ one man to do the work connected 

 with the weighing and testing of the milk of each cow belonging 

 to these farmers. Some of the advantages of such an arrangement 

 over the doing of this work by the farmers themselves are : 



I. Economy. 2. Increased value of the records because of 

 their greater accuracy. 3. Increase in the number of farmers 

 that would avail themselves of this opportunity to gain definite 

 information about their cows. 



A development of this idea led to the establishment of what is 

 known as "Cow Testing Associations." These have increased in 

 number until it is claimed that 400 such associations have been 

 organized in Denmark. 



The idea did not get much of a start in the United States until 

 about 1905-1906, but at the present time cow testing associations 

 are established in Maine, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Mich- 

 igan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio ; and the work is fast spreading 

 to other states which may have associations by this time. 



