40 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1916. 



rules adopted were subsequently modified it does not appear 

 necessary to give the report of the Committee in detail here. 

 The most important points of the report were that the milking 

 test oi the heifers be held in November, 191 5; that this test 

 should be for 7 days; that all the heifers should be tested in 

 one barn and looked after by one man; and that the tester 

 shall be qualified according to the rules of the American Jersey 

 Cattle Club, that is he must be a representative of the Maine 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



The treasurer reported at a meeting in Westfield, March iq, 



19 14, that 16 heifers had been entered in the Sires' Futurity 

 Test in addition to 6 bulls and that $50.00 derived from the 

 entry fees of these animals was on deposit. 



At a meeting of the Association held in Stockholm, June 24, 



191 5, final arrangements of the details of the Futurity Test 

 were discussed by the Association in consultation with the 

 writer of this report and the rules set forth in a later section 

 were adopted. It was voted to instruct the treasurer to receive 

 entries until October 1, 1915, of bulls complying with the rules, 

 at $10.00 for each bull and one heifer, and $3.00 each for each 

 additional heifer. 



Following this meeting at Stockholm the late Mr. E. J. Tar- 

 bell, Secretary of the Aroostook Jersey Breeder's Association, 

 whose untimely death removed from the ranks of Jersey breed- 

 ers in Maine one of their keenest, ablest and most progressive 

 personalities, and the present writer, took up with the American 

 Jersey Cattle Club the question of a suitable prize for the sire 

 winning the Futurity Test. 



Realizing the importance and value of a Futurity Test as an 

 aid in the improvement of the Jersey Cattle of the State, the 

 officers of the American Jersey Cattle Club donated a mag- 

 nificent silver cup, of a value of $100, to be awarded annu- 

 ally to the sire winning the Test under the rules set forth 'n 

 a later section of this report. 



The Purpose of the Jersey Sires' Futurity Test. 



The idea underlying the inauguration of the Sires' Futurity 

 Test was that the surest indication that anyone can have of 

 the breeding worth or value of an animal lies in the perform- 

 ance of its progeny. The only way to tell whether a Jersey bull 



