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The Official Test in the South and the Preliminary Milking¹

Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, A. and M. College, Mississippi

ABSTRACT

Over most of the South official testing was not undertaken as early as in the North. Some few of the Southern states, namely, Maryland, Kentucky and probably Virginia and Tennessee, did official testing from the first years. Since the arrival of the boll weevil the Southern farmer, who was formerly content with raising cotton, has taken up other lines of farming. A great-many have become interested in dairying and this branch of farming has continued to attract attention at an increased degree with each succeeding year. Increased interest has created a larger demand for better cattle. This demand for improved cattle has induced an increased call for the Official Test each year. The growth of the Register of Merit of the Jersey Cattle Club in Mississippi well represents the advance of the Official Test in the South. Dairying was not followed we might say at all in Mississippi until 1909 or 1910 when the boll weevil commenced to make his work felt.

¹ Read at the annual meeting of the Southern Division, American Dairy Science Association, Birmingham, Ala., January 10, 1924.