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Extension Work in Dairy Production

Department of Animal Industry, University of Kentucky, Lexington

ABSTRACT

Fifty years of dairy production extension work have brought many changes in subject matter, in the methods of presenting it, and in the ways of traveling to meetings. Farmers' institutes, which had been in existence before 1906, continued to be, in many states, the principal method of doing dairy extension work until the passage of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914. This type of instruction had its limitations, largely because there was no "follow-up" to assure result demonstrations of the practices that had been suggested at the meetings of the institutes.

In 1905, the year before our scientific association was organized, events happened that helped open the door for the development of the dairy extension program. Helmar Rabild, then of the State Department of Agriculture in Michigan, organized the first dairy herd improvement association in Newaygo County. During the same year an intensive effort was started to bring added agricultural income to the southern states by improving the dairy industry of that section of the country.