| Show eliminate poor milk producers county agent tests dairy herds of beaver SHOWING UP THE EARNINGS D dairymen a cooperate tow towards ards betterment of thriving industry due to the natural conditions being so splendidly adapted to the dairy industry in beavor beaver and also to the fact that nearly every farmer milks a number of cows the county agent is IB cooperating with farmers who wished to do so with th the e view of demonstrating that there is only one accurate and practical way of grading vp up a dairy herd that will p pay ay good profits to the farmers this is by the use of the scales and the bacock babcock tester it does not only he help P to grade up the herd by selecting the profitable cows and getting rid of the low producers but it keeps an ac odthe of the dairy business and teaches the fart farmer ner how to care for his cows for profit by studying the causes of fluctuations as aa they occur in the dairy milk yields on tf tre a record blanks babcock tests have been made at the home of every cooperator and the principle involved explained to them so that they all understood it the object is to have the farmers do as much of the work as possible so that they will thoroughly study their records for this reason and also tu to facilitate time the county agent will continued on page 4 eliminate poor producers visit twice a month at the last or of each month to deliver new record blanki and to 10 ex plain to the farmers how to calculate the profits of each cow for file past month these computations must be made before the fifteenth of each month when the second visit will te le made this time to collect these computed records to check them over and return to tho the farm at tho the last of tho the month milk samples are also taken at this time to get a per butterfat test for that months pic many farmers at first thought that a babcock test taken once was avas fent these cooperators have learned that most covi vary nearly every month sometimes as mch one per cent at the present time in deaver beaver county about eighty five cows cowe are having daily production records kept of their work computations from records of fotr months work have just been finished these records brought surprises to nearly every cooperator some at first doubted the accuracy of the calculations but their own figures were used and figures when right dont lie following are some of the results 8 from the records of fifty cows that are calculated up to the first of may tho the one best cow gave a profit of 1573 for one month the one poorest cow gave a loss of for one moni month h tho the monthly average of 10 per cent of the highest producers gave a net profit of per month the monthly average of 10 per par cent of the lowest producers produce vi gave a net profit of per month one cow like the highest producer for ten months at her rate would produce a net profit of one cow like the average of the highest producers would give a anet net profit of 83 in ten months ono one cow like the average of tho the lowest prod producers cars would give a not net profit of only 2 60 for ten months work Js Is this information worth knowing to the farmer who wishes to make the inist from his time and capital if interest and depreciation on capital invested in cows and barns had been subtracted many more of these cows would have fallen below the dead line tarso figurs however are not absolute from the fact that the cows have not been on test for a full years work |
