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Other business items of importance included a report by Gordon Thornhill, Association Technician, which indicated 233 cows had been bred in the first nine months of operation of which 55% settled on first service and 84% by second service.
Keith Houston, Associate Extension Dairyman of V. P. I., reported between 46 and 48 thousand cows had been bred artificially in Virginia during 1953 and that there were 38 . organizations with 50 skilled technicians. To date not a single organization has folded up thus indciating much greater strides in dairy cattle improvement could be expected in the future. Also Mr. Houston reported that the top Dairy Herd Improve*: merit Association herd in ‘ the state, owned by a Mr. Flora of Franklin County, had been relying 6n artificial brefding as a source of his replacement heifers for several years having a good number in his milking barn. Mr. Flora has the enviable herd production average of 552 lbs. of butterfat per cow.
W. H. Armstrong, mariager of the Virginia Arrifictal BfCeding Association, reported that they had this year completed the most rigid health and sanitation program undertake nby any similar orgamzation. Also that their program had been adopted as a pattern for other such organizations in the United States. Non-member dairymen from out of the state had offered as much as $100.00 service fee per cow in an; effort to get some . f "the same blood Rappahannock dairymen are now getting a $7 per service.
The Rappahannock organization voted to have the next membership year to be from April 1st through December 31st, 1954 in order to get the membership year in line with their fiscal year in 1955 which corresponds with the calendhr^rear. Also they expressed keen desire in having Dr. William L. Wake, local veterinarian, serve as public director.
Plans are being formulated for a tour by the membership of outstanding herds in Madison and Orange counties which have been breeding their cows and improving their herds via the artificial method for several years. The group expressed the de(Continued
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