| Show record of tests of dairy cows cowf twelve farneti farneta far neta and dairy havo have been cooperating with the county cout ity agent in keeping daily records of tho the production anti and seedof feed of their cows during the past pait year over co wi have been on oil those these records and many surprises to farmers have been made this th s work was done r because butter fat prices were encouraging at all to farmers jn in this county but because only a vory few of tile the farmers are able to got grazing gracing permits ori on the public ranges for sufficient nuni num bar of head to justify ranging beef cattle eattle for this reason rea 01 all their stock must bo be fed the year round on the farm and as a con coil sequence less live stock cin can be kept and the cost of feed is much higher under theo the o b on cn kitiona actions farmers cannon alloi alfrord d to raise niso beef cattle alone they must have stock that ysolda a double production in order t tri receive a profit for their work and feed conson consumed ed this is iq demonstrated by tile the fact that probably dinty percent of iff ill farmers of the older settlements are milking a small herd fiord of cov q this thia work was done one to demonstrate to these farmers fill an occur accurate and practical way of determining ri tile the most in st profitable oaf cos gild nd to enable them to eliminate tile the poor produce rs is and thur thu grade up their herds jt T alio kho farmers cooperating kept their heir own records and took thi th milk samples to be to tested 31 e a all under tho the direction of the cu U ltv agent tile the agent collected these t iese samples once u month and madi babcock fat tests of tile the individual cows he also ke kept pt a burr aum mary of all is at the lie end of tile the year sum mariesl Sei and averages wore filin bom t thee besle records so that compana 1 cna could be ninde of tile the individual cows cowa find and of herds two compiled summary re carrs were made one is or of tile the average of of the years work oi ir individual cows including the following factors for each ed w breed of cow age average mi milk and fat per month test value of skimmed milk at per cat cwt cat for hog fecu i acu average price paid for butt butter c fal eat by creameries crea meries buying in this thia section which was average coat of feed per month number or of months on test actual lactation period iier mantl and per ten months in apt up average after feed hau been subtracted because of a few cooper tors bing slow in getting inear I 1 beir rc records ortis in anti and because of cows only being on record i short time only 79 cows were U aed ed to the above comparisons looking across the bottom botto in row it in the above table riving giving the profit for ten months wo we notice that tile tho 10 per cont cent of best beat cows kave gave a profit of nearly twice as anu much ell as the average of all the 79 71 cows cowa and over tiu ti times I 1 mes as a much ati ad tile the average of tile the ten tell pe per r cont cent of poorest cows tuo too many herds are of tile the poorest i class but we will take tile the average of all tile the cows anil and tile elverage average of tile tho ten per cont cant of best cows cova for comparison it 19 probably fair to calup tile the first at 50 ilar per head and the second lit at per head tile the last in actual value profit boull be worth more than tace as much find and would sell easier for that price for convenience we will call tile the two classes as 80 and ac C cows after one gets the foundation stock ir doe dolp not act any more to raise the 80 cows it does to raise tile the 40 cows cow ono one half as many of if the first vill ill produce as much profit q aa twice 03 is many of tile the thorest the best does not eat cat any more ban one of tile the poor cows r requires only half the vork rit rim r stable room and from tile the stand pont p pt ont nt of raising them the canner of if loss is ia only half as great lo le calise ause one only needs half na m trinny many cows to make tile the gallit say ray nothing about tile greater interest in working with rood stock if assuming that like begets like aa a breeders bleeders bre eders oo do lie he 80 cows heifer is worth celee as much as the hoi heifer for of the 40 cow then frum the standpoint of her double prodoc tion and econ economy she is moru more than two hundred per cent more i efficient nicE ont than th average cow cov sae will say that the ste r c calves aives of tho the best cows are not as valuable as they may ho be of ui tile the average cows but out of the 3 host best caws three biere iere hire c short short horn florn cows two reg estered 1 krievs eri evs and three grade jerseys I 1 in ili this county where b fat is is so low in price it may tit bo chat the short horn co COAS oi of tim liht kind are the profitable but one thing is sure cure that cows kept on oil the larm farm must pro luce more ban an a calf ani an i ii ahr t good 0 0 dairy idairy cows of I 1 lie 80 cl cipfl will produce in an equivalent of five good calves at 20 per head I 1 must ilso also be understood that tho the dairy cow cov furnishes profit im employment for the farm ors ers family during tile the vinto s reason 0 itson when there is not nob nuin other work she also bring i steady aind nd regular income antl and ceals the llie soil fertility on the farm which mears to the farmer building up a bank deposit fro aiom al which chic g re tailors anvy n ny upon the int interact erect H A county agent |
