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Show . ,mm in- ' " " ' , DAIRYING (DOES EVERY COW YOU'VE GOT PAY? Did you ever mado any calculations to ascertain what profit you make on the feed you give your cows? You figure the profit on other investment, why not test every cow in your herd, to ice just what she pays as a milk cow. The day has come when only scientific scien-tific dairying will pay. Rend what they do in Denmark to cnab'c them to keep only their best cows. The Work of the Assistants The assi&tants' make periodical visits vis-its to the farm of each memtocr of the association, and spend a day at each place. If the association has twelve members, the testing is done every fourteenth day, the testing wi'l be done once a month, making due allowance for Sundays. In every herd of forty or loss -cows, the work can be done in a day. Tf the number "of cows in a herd is greater than forty, two days are necessary. On the other hand, if the farms are located lo-cated c'oso together mid the. herds are not too large, two herds may be tested in a day. The milk from each cow is carefully care-fully weighed, sampled and tested, Yield from 2 herds a veragos . ...33000 to 4,400 lbs. Yield from 21 herds averages 4,400 tto 5,500 lbs. Yield from 135 herds average i,..w,..,...5j5QQ to 6,600 lbs, Yield from 386 herds averages .. .6,600 to 7,700 lbs. . Yiald fromi 438 herds averages ,.7700 to 8,800 lbs. Yield from 158 herds averages ..o.-.. .8,800 to 9,900 lbs. Yield from 27 herds averagctf.... ..9,000 to 11,000 lbs. Yield from 5 herds averages ...., 11,000 and over. These herds were regular herds as 0 they were fond in the contry nnd do not include any "fancy" herds. The Work Extended Recently many of the association have found the ostein of keeping records so instructive and profttab'e that it his bum extended to inc'ude other branches of fnnniing, such as the raising of young stock, horses, hogs, poultry, nnd 'the growing of crops. We shall be glad to give you further fur-ther information respecting the organization org-anization of testing associations, cat- both night and morning. From the data obtained in thi way, the number of pounds of feed and the cost of same is computed for each cow. These details are entered into a book keipt for that purpose. Thus at the end of the year, the farmer will have a completed record of every cow in his herd, and with this as a basis, he can make intcl'igcnt selection of cows for breeding purposes. Some of the Results. The first aim of the associations ha$ been to make dairying yield better bet-ter returns and to increase the. interest in-terest in dairying. Through an accurate accur-ate record of the yield and feed consumed, con-sumed, the dairyman has an opportunity oppor-tunity to judge as to the present profitableness of his herd, and as these records, when compaicd with others, at the same time, show where improvement might be irvndc, they become be-come of great importance. The problem prob-lem is then, to avoid the mistakes f the past and to make such improvements improve-ments as arc needed, and the records may suggest. The forowing tabic shows what systematically kept records will accomplish ac-complish in the line of milk yield. The miik production of 1,172 herds On the Island of Fycn, Denmark, is found to be as follows: tie,- or anything else to promote the business. BLACKMAN & GRIFFIN CO. |