Show P y c.- c. 1 J Keeping Records on the I The Bureau of Animal Industry has published a very valuable book giving Records of Dairy Cows in the United States This publication contains valuable information and excellent halftone illustrations of record cows of ot the country It urges dairymen to I adopt better business methods on the I farm farm farm-a a complete system of bookkeeping ing whereby definite knowledge of the sources of profit and loss may be ascer tamed In no department connected with the farm is there more need for absolute data than in the dairy While village merchants and grocers for tor example ex cx- ample average about alike aUke in their knowledge of their businesses their prices and profits being nearly equal the records show that there are progressIve progressive progressive pro pro- and unprogressive dairymen one making a good profit while his next door neighbor with the same soUa soil soU and a d market may ma be bo losing money The difference in their profits therefore must be accounted for largely by the difference in the Intelligence put put- into their business Experts of the Department Department Depart Depart- ment meat of Agriculture believe that one one- fourth of the cows in the entire country country country coun coun- try kept for milk do not pay for the cost of keeping and nearly one-fourth one more fail fall to yield an an annual profit The object of the book Issued by the Bureau is to show dairymen the importance of keeping records complete enough so that it will be possible to avoid the handling of unprofitable animals and to bring the dairy Industry of the country coun coun- try up to a paying basis |