If our creameries could only Induce their patrons to keep 

 them posted as to the actual number of cows (and heifers) kept 

 on the farm and the approximate amount of milk kept at home, 

 they would get some startling average figures and soon induce 

 the farmers to go into the testing of each cow. 



Why should the creamerymen be interested ^ Because they 

 would soon find that the patrons who kicked on the test and 

 complain that dairying don't pay, do so because they milk the 

 wrong cow. 



I am not sure that the Danish associations is the best way 

 for us. I am afraid the cost would be too high, but to start 

 with, the creameries could encourage it by hiring a young com- 

 petent man for testing the creamery milk and test for those 

 farmers that desire it helping them with the keeping of the 

 accounts so as to get uniform reports. 



The State might encourage the formation of such an Asso- 

 ciation by a grant of say the young man's salary, letting the Ex- 

 periment Station or the State Dairy Association appoint him 

 and publish the reports. In Denmark the State gives a subsidy 

 of about $70 to each of the forty Associations. This would not 

 be sufficient here but if we could get at least two Associations 

 started by offering $400 a year for five years to the two first 

 Associations started, one in the northern and one in the south- 

 ern part of the State, the effect would be worth twenty times 

 the expense, and I appeal to the friends of the dairy interest for 

 legislation in this direction, or assistance by private philanthropy. 

 Millions of dollars are donated to help other industries, other 

 professions to a better education, why not help the farmers in a 

 practical manner worth twenty times the amount spent in 

 theoretical education ? Just think of the effect of these reports 

 published (without names) in the local press, in the agricultural 

 press, and discussed at Farmer's Institutes and school house 

 meetings. 



But granted even that no help is given, the cost need not be 

 so very great after all. Young men just out from the agricul- 

 tural college would be glad of such work at a nominal sal- 



