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Show H improvingt:he dairy herd. ,11 - H PP by Prof. C. Larsen, Formerly H ofithe Utah Agricultural College. . ;;y.r ?. B Conditions arc rapidly approaching B when no farmer in South Dakota can H afford to keep a cow for her calf H alone. If one farmer niUk5lusACOv.$ H antt another docs not, but allows his B calves to suck... the. one who docs the M milking is going to be ahead to the B extent of the butter-fat with very lit- tic tadditional labor. m The amount of butter-fat, or profit, m which- ia. fanmcr receives fromMils m -cows depends, first, upon the kind of H cows; second, upon the kind :'of feed B and carc flicy receive) third, upon the H manner of selling or disposing of the 1 milk and crcaiii7 H Jt matters little whether a farmer H is in the dairy work as a bWincss;! or H simply practicing it as on adjunct or - H side issue to general farming, the alU- H important thing in successful dairying Hl is fb keep profitable cows. This is of f special importance because so fevv H, prqfitablc" and good producing cows Hi arc found on our dairy farms.- In- j stcal wc find a' large' number of-un ' profitable cows, which arc being ' milked, but in reality,, are notSvorthy Hf of the name "Dairy Cow," U lb costs but little more to feed and H car& for a good dairy cow than it cfocs H . to fced and care for a poor one. It is H safekto say that tjicrc is not a farmer. H in Sputji Dakota, who keeps a herd of : tcn'daryjtowst wljo docs not Jiayc, I ni or uore Por- nnd unprofitable I C0V' W. equljr, true tliat., every such dai'ry , farmer jlas onc or more KO profitable producers. The good cov arc producing a good profit, and', the poor ones are prbduqing a las. TlVtelrtmy" boarders that do not pay for iiW I board. They arc the ones which; rc ducc tljeaycrage profit from the herd. They not only "cat their own heads off," but they also cat the profit away frorni the good and profitable cows.", The,, dairy cows are simply (otir workers. yVc.fccd and carcfor them, and tell tlicin to go ahead and coi vert or q transform that feed and cafe, 1J5o imlk and butter-fat. If some flf these' cows cannot do this work advantageously, ad-vantageously, and make a snug sum of profit for us, the best thing to dD is ttHclisnosc dfvthcnvas soon as posr bible. The dairycow's work isf to economically convert feeds into milk and butter fat If we had, a dozen men working for us, arid half of them were loafers who did not work enough to pay for their board, the loafers, or unprofitable men, would be located anil discharged. The best thing wc can do with our unprofitable cows is to fatten thcnijiand discharge tile in. The question may arise, "Hov luch shall a dairy Cwjpj;odjLice tp be a profitable animal?" The answer to this question wil vary some, ac cording to conditions, such as price - Qf feed and dairy products anxl scarcity scar-city of labor. Under general Soutfi Dakota conditions, the cows which, do not produce 600 gallons (8 lbsJ' in a gallon) of milk, testing three pcj cent fat, per year, are not profitable t cows to keep. |