Show Y COUT COST R OF COWS KEEP interesting tests made by prof fraser of illinois in one herd only pour four animals proved profitable money and lab labor or wasted baat waat d on thirty others othera profit and lose loa shown prof wilber J fraser university of illinois after figuring out his bla table of the keep and profit of cows cowa of 0 1 I degrees of production illustrates its ite use in a very striking manner by in the records of five herds chosen from the scores of herds berda tho the illinois station has baa tested for a full year herd no noa 1 cont alaa 24 cows cowa abose average production to Is pounds ol of milk ind pounds of butterfat with a profit of 1118 per cow the individual records show only three unprofitable cows which lost a total glenwood boy of haddon the sits of dairymaid of Pline hurst ot of 1716 but none other cows cowa make a very small email profit from to just six cows return profits that should be expected from 2136 to 2970 no cows cowa producing less than 16 profit per year should be retained had tola this herd consisted of ten cows cowa ike the beet beat one the owner would have made a profit instead of for thi the year herd no 2 had 34 awe cows that averaged pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat butter tat and made a total profit oi of only pei cow tor for the year fifteen of at these cows were keptot kept at a positive loss t totaling and only four cows had as aa much is aa 16 profit if the owner had milked only these thebe four cows lin lift would haven have made mote make money and would have saved the labor of caring for the the other 30 he herd rd no 3 had bad 12 cows cowe every one of which shows a profit above 16 and an average profit of herd no 4 had cows cowa which average only pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat butt ergat ten of these cows were kept at an actual loss and the best cow made a profit of only 1021 the total loss lose of this herd was or per cow herd no 6 aad had 13 cows averaging pounds of milk and pounds of 0 butterfat making a total profit ol oi and an average of par cow covi and the best four cows in this herd made a profit of which la Is more than the total profit of the whole three herds 1 2 and 4 containing 73 rows cows and returning only profit in a year although a grade herd its ita lowest cow returned a profit of at 2260 which is more than twice that of at the best cow in herd no 4 1 |