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ary on account of the experience to be gained and 

 might be secured for $400 a year, each farmer boarding 

 him and driving him to the next farm. In that case the actual 

 cash expense for an association of twelve members with an 

 average of ten cows would be a trifle over three dollars per cow, 

 or $15 for five years, that sounds a large amount, but think of 

 the result. Nor is it likely to be more than half that amount as 

 thirty out of the forty associations in Denmark comprise 500 

 cows. 



I say the farmers who start the first association will not only 

 help themselves, but do more than five conventions to promote 

 good dairying. 



