Show increase profitable butterfat production the following are essentials in profitable butterfat production according to 0 o 11 11 II kildee formerly of the dairy husbandry division of the university of AlInne minnesota sota university farm st SL paul pant proper shelter in a warm light well ventilated barn The leeward side of a barbed wire fence Is an expensive shelter for milk cows A knowledge of the herd through the use of milk scales and the babcock test corn silage and clover or alfalfa hay bay as patriotic profitable palatable feeds A grain ration in proportion to milk and butterfat produced fall calving as a means of increasing production as well as price at a time when more labor Is available A bushel of grain fed before calving rather than two fed afterward prepare the cows cowa tor for the milking period water of moderate temperature ice water Is not conducive to greatest milk production A milking machine in case of labor shortage operation cooperation co with the neighbors in organizing cow testing associations and purchasing feeds in carload lots lota |