| Show THA trim THE Js inis WAGE SET BY QUALITY strikingly shown in records of minnesota test dairymen set their own wages by the kind of ws they kapp this la strikingly in facts secured from the 1930 records of dairy herd improvement in scott and pro accord dakota counties minnesota ing to county agent raymond aune the high aard in the scott county as made cents per hour returns for labor above feed cost while the average scott county herd paid its keeper only cents per hour the average return for all bembera of the testing association was cents per hour the dakota county statement corn piled by W E watson county agent showed even more striking comparisons being based on whole milk prices ahe return above feed cost for the high herd in dakota was ca cents per hour as 8 cents for the average herd of the county mem bers of the dairy herd improvement associations received an average return of 83 cents in general these figures check closely with those for the entire state in 1930 for all of minnesota a herd averaging pounds of butterfat per cow returned 52 cents above feed cost for each hour of labor spent while a pound herd which Is the state average returned only 17 cents these figures are based on 40 cent butterfat and would have to be reduced by 25 cent to conform with the present 30 cent price says II 11 R searles dairy specialist university farm st paul minn mr seares adds tl at low producing avis those makens to pounds of butterfat paid only 2 cents per hour above feed cost for labor in 1930 making about 3 for the year this year however the man who wants to borte with this kind of cow will have to pay about 3 cens on hour for the privilege on hours of labor the average required tor a cow the loss will be about 4 test for tuberculosis reaches new high mark Pre oard by the united states of service A new mirk in the official test angot cattle for tuberculosis was reached in march when tuberculin tests were made by federal state and county veterinarians working co operatively this Is the largest number of cattle ever tested in any one month since the nation wide cooperative campaign to eradicate this disease began about twelve years ago the previous high mark was in october 1930 when cattle were tested according to records of the united states department of agriculture the state of iowa had cattle tested during march the greatest number of any state in that month wisconsin with testa was second minnesota was third with and illinois was fourth with another feature of the march report was the large amount of testing in some of the eastern states especially in the highly infected districts there have been many demands from bittle owners in this territory to submit their herds to the tuberculin test addition al state funds for indemnity have recently been provided in some eastern states the activities in connection with tuberculin testing of cattle says dr A E wight in charge of bovine tu eradication for the depart ment of agriculture show plainly that the demand for the work Is still increasing grinding small grains for cows Is right plan dairymen have long known that it pays to grind small grains for dairy cows and experimental evidence supports this procedure opinions however have differed as to the most profitable degree of fineness to grind such grains and as few feeding trials have hitherto been made with this specific question in mind G bohstedt and F W duffee together with their associates in the wisconsin college of agriculture have in the past year conducted investigations in which the rel feeding value for dairy cows of finely ground barley was compared to that of medium ground birley the preliminary results favor the use 0 medium ground barley due to its greater efficiency in maintaining live weight and producing milk grinding barley medium fine rather than fine also costs appreciably less depend on pasture during the summer many dairy farmers depend upon pasture alone to produce the milk which Is to be eold at a profit A grass pasture furnishes just about enough to maintain the cow A cow may produce a capacity flow of milk on pasture feed but the result will be that she Is underfed in feeding for production a ration must be used that supplies nutrients required to make the protein fat carbohydrates and mineral matter thai la found in milk |
