THE TESIN’ CLUB.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 211, 20 August 1927, Page 4

THE TESIN’ CLUB.

(By L. A. Kimble.) A while back in our domain They started up a big campaign To make a testin’ club er two To show what our cows would do.

The country agent give a speel That helped to consummate the deal And finally some of us give in And said we’d try it lose er win! 'Twas quite a step fer us, I guess, Because they bad it in the’press, And buiness men from here and there Commended as on the affair.

They got the tester right away Who guaranteed to come and stay Once every month a day or so For wnich we antied up the ’dough, We got some high falutin’ scales On which to estimate the pails Of milk we got from every cow At ever bloomin' milk pow-wow. And then we bad to write that in A little book they give us men And keep it choice agin the day’ The tester happened round our way.

Well, when he got around to us Muri and I both liked the cuss’ And thought it pleasant like of him To help us iu our dairyin’. He went out Co the barn that night And told me what he ‘lowed was right In fed and such to make a cow Produce the most from bin and mow. He weighed the milk and weighed the

feed Each special critter seemed to need And iu the morning did the same’ Accordin’ to the testin’ game.

Well, afterwards he figured how The records stuck on every cow; Which struck Mari, she ’ll always hold The same as gettiii’ fortunes told. Well, when 1 saw my cow display On paper, in the tester's way I sorter figured in my head It sure was like Mariar said. For some of them had given back Their feed and quite a little jack; And others, in the figures failed Producing what their feed entailed. Well, all of this was news to me But yet it all soaked in, by gee, ’ And I decided then and there I’d put an end to that affair, And since I’ve tried the testin’ way I’ve made the rule, each cow'll pay So much to me to milk and stew And fuss around her like I do. And when I contemplate the day I doubted testin’ worth its pay I see I missed the big idee Because the testin’s payin’ me!