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These Cow Testing Associations do not cost but little and they 

 are of great benefit. You should have in an association 25 to 30 

 different farms and the tester would then go on each farm one day 

 a month and keep track of and test every cow, and at the end of 

 the year he will tell you what it has cost to keep each of these 

 cows. The cost of the association to each farmer is very small. 



Q : Would you discard a heifer who makes a poor showing 

 her first year? 



A: You can't always tell. Some years cows don't do as 

 well as in others. You can tell a cow that it does not pay to 

 keep pretty quickly. You ought to keep more cows here. You 

 have a good creamery and a good market. If you have a cream- 

 ery to buy your cream, letting you keep the skimmilk and feed 

 it to pigs and calves, you will get more than we do selling whole 

 milk. Get a good sire and raise good heifers. 



Q: How do you milk, Mr. Mason? 



A : By hand. 



Q : How many cows do you milk on your farm ? 



A : I have milked 7,890 myself since the first of January. 



Q : How many cows do you have on your farm, is what I 

 was asking you, Mr. Mason. 



A : Seventy-five cows. We don't keep as many as we used 

 to on account of the shortage of labor. 



Q : Do you milk by machinery ? 



A : That would take off a great deal of the pleasure of 

 dairying. (Laughter). The milking machine is all right, T 

 think, but there is a difference of opinion about it. Many dairy 

 farmers are using it successfully and some time in the future it 

 will be in general use." 



