Show Use Production Records I 1 to Boost Sale of Cows IP Putting g dairy cows Jn Ir n d a i dairy herd herd Improvement 0 en ent or oi cow CO testing c tIon and getting d definite fin e records on them n milk butterfat pro producers l ers may mn- mn o add d as m mJ J us s 5 te i to So their value th the opinion qt t n at l least ast orie of I the many nten mei members member's bems belis of f dairy herd 1 Improvement 1 ro n associations sQ IIi In hi W s a u a ni member mt er of pf f tie tite ns association tion In K n x county and an recently when lie ime held a sale of alry cattle the ilie record of e each h c cow w was wits wits' announced d as us she was led Into the time ring He 80 e declared afterwards that tl the e n average se selling price of th time the cows was In Increased at least 15 a n head bead by announcing nOu cIng the records In another case r records oison on the per performance per per- fer- fer of ot the cows were credited with having Ing added 50 50 to a sale aver nyer- age Cows in this sale brought an average a of a head After the time sale some of ot the time remarks heard around the ring were Herd Improvement association asso asso- elation records sure helped those cows If It hadn't been for those records those cows cows wouldn't have avera averaged ed more than than- 75 lie He mode made enough h on one cow to pay all his dairy herd Improvement association costs The owner himself said ily My Iy cows Certainly er er- sold good and tho the records helped a n lot Higher prices for surplus cows at atthe atthe the time lime they are sold Is but one of the several ways In which dairy herd Improvement association members cash In on the value of testing accordIng accordIng accord- accord Ing lag to 1 7 1 II Il assistant In dairy extension at the coll college ge of agriculture University of Illinois where the work of the Illinois associations Is super super- |