Show Herd Herc Ass Association Idea an Old One Danish Farmers Increased Milk Production P Pounds by Testing Dy By 0 S. M M. Salisbury Professor of ot Dairy Dali In lug ing Ohio State Son Sor Dairymen In Ohio accepted a lesson leason leg lea son from the dairymen of or Denmark when they organized dairy herd Improvement improvement Im Ira- provement associations or cow testIng testing testing test- test Ing associations as ag they are most commonly called The forerunners of the modern Ohio h herd her erd Improvement associations were vere the societies of Denmark Den Denmark Denmark mark organized 40 years ago ngo T Tie The e society like Ulee the 30 SO modera modera mod mod- era ern Ohio dairy herd berd Improvement associations was formed to provide pro for tor a monthly visit of a tester The tester weighed the milk produced by each cow In the herd and sampled sampled sam sam- pled It for butterfat testing He lIe also kept kelt a n record of fee feed consumed and computed pro production costs for tor each individual c cow w in the herd berd From these records kept year after year the dairymen of ot Denmark Denmark Denmark Den Den- mark were able to cull cuU from their herds berds the poor cows and find am and keep the good ones onea So effective were the associations lons in Denmark that the country raised the average prod production p per r cow to pounds of ot milk and pounds of butterfat butter butter- fat Cat A Average production of Ohio herds Is about pounds Testing year In and year out with an eye to tho the low producing indIvIduals indI- indI and their elimination from froma a all 1 future pedigrees offers our only hope for continued breeding of ot useful useful use use- ful dairy cattle |