Show COWS AS PIIODUCERS The cost of a pound of human food based on results from 1776 animals examined at various experiment stations sta-tions and at the Columbian exposition has been carefully studied by Dr W H Jordan director of the Maine Station Sta-tion and embodied in an entirely new lecture that was ihe feature of the Stae dairymens convention In brief the work of Dr Jordan was to figure out the relation between the food eaten and what is produced by It The percentage of dressed weight to live weight in steers is 644 In the composition com-position of a dressed carcass Sye throwaway throw-away in what can not be eaten eighteen pounds out of every 100 pounds So that in the steer we only get 464 pounds of food In each 100 pounds of live weight the remainder being discarded But of milk we throw away nothingit is all eaten all digestible in eggs we throw away nothing but the shell eggs and milk being perfect foods One of the cows at the Maine experiment station produced pro-duced as much human food in one year as is to be found in four 1000 pound steeds The lecture was all through a plea for exactness in experimentation Dr Jordan saying that he had more faith In the work of the fiftyfive experiment ex-periment stations of the country than in popular notions of a practical nature na-ture |