Show price of beef checks expansion of dairying the relation between the price ot of beef and the price of milk has an important influence on the number and nie age of the milk cows in the united St states ittes according to flie file united states department of agriculture tills this relation adilon I says 0 1 E re reed ed chief of the bureau of dairy alry industry affects both the age at which milk cows n are re sold sold for slaughter and the number of beet beef i t type y P e cows milked C ed because of the present prices of beef he comments coro ments dairymen are culling calling their low producers dubers and aged cows cowa to make room fo for the heffers heifers just coming into milk indications are that for the next few years the price of b beef will be an important factor in restricting the ex of dairying dairying and the number of 0 cows milked Is expected to show little increase for several years the gradual increase in the demand for milk due to increasing population seams seems likely to result resul in prices averaging sufficiently above feed costs to permit a gradual furt further fier iacre increase Inc reuse itse ln in the production of milk per cow |