Show let dairy cow market home grown grain feed the dairy cow furnishes a better market today for feed than ever before says 11 II R searles dairy specialist with the agricultural extension division university of minnesota mr searles has been comparing prices and finds that while the prices of dairy feeds have increased 24 per cent since 1914 butterfat prices have mounted about 70 per cent in the same sama period in 1914 1014 with butterfat selling at 30 cents a pound the pound cow returned 90 at a feed cost of 45 or a return over feed cost of 45 11 says saya mr searles in 1027 1927 with butterfat nt at 51 rents cents a pound the gouni cow returned nt at a feed cost of about 56 50 leaving a return over fe feed ed cost of 97 this cow then in 1927 returned 02 52 more over feed cost than she did in 1914 translated into terms of return over feed costs the tha increase in favor of 1927 has been around per cent it pays to feed grain to good cows for the man who hua has the cows they are a better market for ills his feed grain than the elevator it if he IV Is short of 0 grain hp he can afford to buy it at present prices the proper grain ration fed with roughage will greatly increase hla his income for the roughage he Is selling through the cow cow testing association reports show that as the production of butterfat increases from pounds per cow to pounds the price received for the roughage the cow eats cats increases from per ton to 39 30 per ton |