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Show BUILDING UP A HERD Robber Cows Should Be Disposed of When Discovered. Cheapest Way to Insure Profits Is to Use Common Sense and Good Judgment in Selection of Sire Tester Is Infallible. , (By R. Q. WK.YTIIERSTOXE.) With butter selling to the city customer cus-tomer nt 40 cents a pound, and the price of feed for dairy cows soaring upward every mouth, the question of the robber cow ber "nes more interesting interest-ing every day. fit- rf any man can go along feeding a lot of scrub cow s that cost more than they earn is beyifhd comprehension. If you have ten cows and the tester shows four of them do not produce enough millt to pay for their keep, why not sell them and put the proceeds into one good cow one that will not only save the loss of the robber cows, but earn a net profit of from $30 to $50 a year? That is good business sense, isn't it? Here are some championship milk and butterfat records that you may want to refer to some time when you want to know the possibilities of milk and butter production: Jacoba Irene, Jersey cow, made a record of 15,503 pounds of milk testing 6.5 per cent, butterfat, 8,539 pounds; Rena Ross. Ayreshire cow, 15,072 pounds of milk, testing 4.26 per cent, butterfat, equaling equal-ing 6,432 pounds in a year; Holstein cow, Colantha Fourth's Johanna. 7,432.5 pounds of milk, testing 3.64 A Typical Robber Cow. per cent butterfat, equal to 998.26 pounds in a year; Yeksa Sunbeam, Guernsey cow, 14,920.8 pounds of milk, testing 5.74 per cent, butterfat, equal to 857.15 pounds in a year. In computing the butter yfeld, add 15 per cent, to the butterfat records. These are possible yields under the best conditions con-ditions by something less than one tow in a million. Of course, we cannot all own such wws as these, but we can buy an oc-tasional oc-tasional bull calf from these strains and by crossing him with good grade cows build up a milk profit herd and never miss the cost. The universal profits from good cows secured In this way will pay for a good bull In a short time. This is the cheapest way of building upa herd and there can be no failing if common sense and good judgment are used as to the selection se-lection of the bull. The Babcock tester will keep us straight on the value of the cows, because they cannot can-not dodge the test. Itiis Infallible. |