Show produce high producers to make cow profitable no one can tell with certainty just what the daughters of a pure bred dairy sire will produce until after they have been milked but it can be stated with certainty that the daughters of common or scrub cows sired by a good pure bred dairy sire will vill be better than their dams dama As henrly as can be estimated the average production of the western dairy cow Is under 2000 pounds of milk per year if this milk tested 4 per cent tile the average butterfat yield per year would be pounds with feed at present prices approximately approximate ly one half the dairy cows are below the production that will yield a satisfactory profit profet economy and logic indicate that the most satisfactory method of obtaining higher yielding dairy cattle 1 is to breed them the poorer cows can be replaced by better ones and then purebred pure bred sires from high prodoc ing cows can be used to build up the production of the present herds of the state |