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Presque Isle for testing. If such a test were to be held in the 

 southern part of the state, it would be equally fair to require 

 that heifers entered from Kennebec, Franklin or Androscoggin 

 counties should be sent to Highmoor Farm at Monmouth for 

 testing. Cow test associations undertaking the work in other 

 parts of the state could arrange to have the milking test brought 

 off at the barn of some one of their members whose location 

 was central, and who had sufficient barn room to accommodate 

 for a week the heifers entered. 



In regard to the time of year when the test is held, it is 

 probably to be regarded as generally undesirable to hold a test 

 so late in the fall of the year as this Aroostook test was held. 

 It would seem much more desirable to make the test a summer 

 affair. Of course the only thing that it is necessary to take ac- 

 count of if one is to change the date of the test is also to change 

 the dates within which an animal will be eligible for entry. 

 Thus to take a concrete example, suppose it were thought de- 

 sirable to hold a Sires' Futurity Test in June. As a matter of 

 fact, June would in some respects be a good month in which 

 to hold such a test. It is a month in which the weather condi- 

 tions are favorable and it comes after the heavy work of plant- 

 ing and before the beginning of haying and other summer 

 operations. In case such a test were planned, let us say, for 

 June 1916 it would then seem desirable to make the requiremenr 

 that any heifer would be eligible for entry in this competition 

 which was dropped between the dates of September i, 191 3. 

 and September 1, 1914. 



RULES GOVERNING THE AWARD OF THE AMERICAN JERSEY 

 CATTLE CLUB'S CUP. 



1. This cup, valued at $100.00 will be awarded annually 

 under the conditions hereinafter specified, to the owner who 

 entered the winning sire: in the Maine Jersey Sires' Futurity 

 Test, held annually under the auspices of the Aroostook Jersey 

 Breeder's Association. 



2. Any animal to be eligible for competition for this cup 

 must be a pure-bred Jersey bull, registered in the Herd Book 

 of the American Jersey Cattle Club, and properly entered in 

 the Maine Sires' Futurity Test according to the rules and regu- 

 lations of that test. 



