County Agent Reports C R Sell Seii Producing Non Cows py Nyle J Matthews Extension Agent shortage e of feed this year Its hl high h cost will make it ft less profitable to keep non productive beef bed cows over the winter inter COWS THAT ARE not going to calve next spring should be detected and sold for beef this fall fail This is done by a simple pregnancy examination by an Veterinarian Most 1 M e able to detect the pregnancy 1 n the fall with about 98 percent lc Some cows which are pregnant In the fall will lose heir calf for for various r and others others will ill bear dead cal e es at birth In years when hay hays Is s short and expensive the preg ancy test can aid a producer In fn culling without affecting the thc production of oC his herd A non pregnant regnant cow in the fall Will pot flot p produce any Income for ap ap- ap approximately proximately 24 months unless he js is sold If she is kept in he herd hent even It if thc she is n a cow ith superior performance she hl 1111 Ill not produce as many pounds po of bee beef as an average producing cow that calves ev- ev every ev ery ery year isery Cost 9 of pregnancy testing is try ery low In comparison to the Cost ot of wintering cows that will Mt fiet produce EconOmists In Wyoming Colorado and nd the the u Department of estimate the he cost of oC ke keeping ping a ato to pow for 12 months to be ap- ap approximately approximately proximately This figure Includes charge for labor ta tax tax- S wages and inter inter- st st on loans and capital d d As most of bf this cost Is sus sus- sus famed during the winter Inter months end the price of cow beef being high this fall cattle ranchers should seriously con kider ider selling these COWS and us us- us i Ing II usIng the capital to better care for or those are arc way ay A PREGNANCY PREG NCY examination y an experienced Veterinarian tan can also be an advantage advantage in L I i Ii detecting reproductive aWes and an early warning of disease problems which might seriously affect reproduction on in the coming spring