FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 23 



ber of 105 cow testing associations operating in Michigan 

 today. We are trying to interest those kind of organiza- 

 tions, because they are looked up to and respected. 



The feeding game is getting more and more complex 

 all the while. There is a great deal of information, but 

 only a little of it used — ^the old, old story of feeding. The 

 cow testing association affords the opportunity of some real 

 study along this particular line and I beseech you to try to 

 get into it. 



Another question — do you know what you want to do 

 with your cows in the future? We would do well to think 

 over this problem and, as we go along, weed out the poor 

 cows. The fellow who starts out on any other basis is 

 doomed to failure. You can tell by looking at your cows, 

 but still there are a lot of dairymen in Illinois, and other 

 states, too, going along without this knowledge. 



Another thing a cow testing association will do for 

 you: it will build up a greater community interest and a 

 greater co-operative spirit among the farmers, so that you 

 can do other things. Our cow testers are not only cow test- 

 ers — ^they are working with the farmers and doing all they 

 can to assist^ them. 



We have got to get back to efficiency in production and 

 efficiency in feeding. But it is only the men who see the 

 light ahead and realize this fact who are going to succeed 

 in the dairy business; the others will be forced to drop out. 

 The market is always made on the basis of the efficient 

 worker everywhere. If you are inefficient, you cannot com- 

 pete with the efficient fellow in working, no matter what 

 job you have got. 



About bull selection — I want to say that the cow test- 

 ing association offers the greatest opportunity of anything I 

 know of in bull association work and development of pure- 

 bred sires, because you know then just what they are doing. 

 By testing both daughters of a bull and mothers of those 

 daughters, they get a direct line on what those cows are 

 doing. That is another big advantage and there are many 

 other advantages. 



Another thing I must speak about that belongs in the 



