Show weed out boarder cows in building up a herd by weeding out his bon boarder ader cows raising helfer calves from his best cows only and feeding milk making feeds in proper a mounts amounts it la Is possible for a good dairy farmer to practically double hla his dairy herd income in four years without increasing the number of his cows just how tills this can be done on the average dairy farm Is well shown in the record of a herd of cowan one of minnesotan Min blin dairy herd hard improvement associations by following these practices the average production of this herd increased from pounds of butterfat a year per cow to pounds four years later inter tile the income over feed cost per cow during that time jumped from 58 18 to As this farmer had 16 cows in his herd he increased ills income over from the same cows in four years time the first step in building up a profitable dairy herd Is the use of dally daily records of milk produced and feed eaten by each cow these records are simple and require only a few minutes time to make the dally daily milk record of each cow makes it possible to feed tier her according to her milk production which usually means at the rate of about one pound of milk making grain to every three pounds of milk produced and nil all the alfalfa hay and corn silage she will clean up tip the milk and feed records will also show which cows tire are profitable and which are not |