Show CAN FARMERS MAKE MONEY DAIRYING M L harris shows butter fat can bo be produced for cents cente pound can the farmers affeld to produce pro quee milk at present prices the above question was put to M L harris county agent utah agricultural college his reply Is published in full below the answer to this question depends upon a great many factors which go to determine the expense of keeping the cow as well as tile the production the individuality of the cow herself is a very great factor and each cow that is 1 i kept for milk production should be carefully watched and studied the only azcui ate way of studying a cow ii to keep a record of what hat she cats and the milk she produces as well as the butter fat production the milk she pro luces alices Is not a reliable way of what the cow is worth in the recent testing done in the vernal lotion tion some cows were 14 found which tested 1 as 11 9 biow ow v as two and two tenths N X lie others were found which te 1 oiron seven and n f rita six tenths utitia pe de cent the latter Is remarkably mar kably high one cow was found which produced two and thirty five hundredths pounds of butter fat per day and another was found which produced thirty six pounds of butter fae fat per day at practically the same cost this only emphasizes the need of record keeping and know knowing itil just what your cows are doing we have no accurate way of determining the actual tion of the average cow of the valley the census of 1910 the county production of uintah county as pound i of butter fat while the aver inglai of the state is given as pounds the state avei ago age has been estimated by ex pert dairymen who are well acquainted throughout tile the state as pounds as given in bulletin of the college perhaps the best way of estimating the production of our cows and the cost of production is in comparison with the richmond lewiston cow testing association re records actual records were kept of the amount of hay and grain consumed by each of milk produced and tile the I 1 test lest it gave the cows were chat chai ged with pasture at the late of 2 00 per month and hay at fron 16 6 50 to 9 per ton and grains nt at from 20 to 40 pet pei ton dining the years of 1911 and 1912 of cows were kept and it was found that the coat of producing a pound of butter fat was 14 8 again average cost of production waa found to bo be cents per pound assuming that we had a as good cows as they had and that they were as well kept end placing a value of 6 a ton on alfalfa and 1 16 per pel hundred on our giali we could produce butter tat for cents per pound it cost them a year to feed an average cow with our prices it would cost us 2973 a year to feed tile the cow dividing the cost coit of keeping 2 73 by average pro Bf ecklon in the state it gives A ost of 21 cents per pound of blitter tat fat I 1 we perhaps would not be fp r wrong to take the results t f the r recent cent testing and ree rec fjord rd taking in the valley as airly airey indicative of the actual condition here thirty six aix cows owe were tested and the aver continued on page 3 |