56 DAIRYING 



tion or by uniting the interests of many individuals in one organi- 

 zation. Farmers and dairymen have realized this in the past and 

 have started many co-operative societies that have been helpful 

 to them. One of the more recent of such organizations is the 

 Community Breeders' Association. 



Statistics show that the number of cows in dairy sections of 

 the country is continually increasing. This is encouraging, bur 

 along with this gain there should be some development in indi- 

 vidual production, and the question is now being asked, is the 

 quality of the cows improving as well as the quantity . The amount 

 of milk produced per cow is of as much, if not more, importance 

 than the number of cows milked on each farm, and it is for the 

 purpose of raising the standard of production per cow that these 

 associations are being organized. 



BENEFIT OF THE ASSOCIATION TO ITS MEMBERS. 



753. The Community Breeders' Associations that have al- 

 ready been successfully started have shown : 



1. That the co-operation of owners of cows of a certain 

 breed in a community is much more beneficial to them than is a 

 spirit of rivalry and competition. If a certain community gets the 

 reputation of having a supply of excellent representatives of a 

 given breed of cows, all the cow owners in that neighborhood, 

 profit by it, and the more they do to aid each other, and the more 

 they strive to deserve a high reputation for excellent cows, the 

 greater the benefits derived from such a reputation by all the cow 

 owners in the community. More progress is made by such co- 

 operation than by each farmer working independently of each 

 other. 



2. Such community organization gives an added interest to 

 questions of breeding ; they provide a wider field for observation 

 than the herd of one man supplies, and these more extensive ob- 

 servations make some impression on old fogy and erroneous ideas 

 that may be in existence in the community. 



3. There is better protection from tuberculosis and con- 



