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Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, for the Year Ending September 30, 1917, Vol. 2
The first publication issued by the State Department of Agri culture on the work of dairy improvement associations was Bul letin 30, issued in 1911 and entitled Cow Testing Associations. Although at that time the work of such associations was in its infancy, the subject matter set forth in the bulletin was so clear and convincing that it attracted wide attention, making evident the fact that the fundamental principle of profitable dairying was a better cow, intelligently fed. The five years that have passed since Bulletin 30 was issued have been evolutionary, as the title of the present bulletin would indicate. Substantial growth has taken place, showing the possibilities to be attained by better breeding, increased yield, and economic feeding, as factors in reducing the cost of production. The numbers of associations and cows under test have increased, and with these have come-better methods of organization and administraton. This evolution has sent into the discard much that was undertaken in good faith, but found to be unsuitable; with it have gone not a few cows wholly unfit to have a place in twentieth-century dairying. That the number of the unfit may be materially decreased is one object of present-day associations. With their elimination must go certain men, who, either because of ignorance, lack of adaptation to the business, or undesirable farm location, are working under a handicap too heavy to be overcome.
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