Show lop art IRAA I 1 LOW TESTING COW CUTS DOWN PROF PROFITS ITS good animals prove value in milk prices ily by C 0 ll IlAnT now new york state stat coll collect ego 0 f abric agric ua tur service despite low milk prices now york state dairymen can still collect prices for high testing milk for the rate la Is still four cents canta a point poin under those these circumstances dairymen dal rymon are giving more attention to their herd test and to removing low testing cows for example a dal dairyman ryman who has nn an average milk test for his herd of 3 per cent butterfat has haa 20 cents a hundred deducted when lie ho sells on a market that requires milk to test 8 6 10 per cent of fat with milk at 1 a hundred lie ho lg Is paid put but 80 cents a hundred if milk were selling for 3 ho would got get a loss losa but not in proportion to the 1032 loss losa many now york state dairymen aro are using tile tho dairy record club or the mull mall order testing association to discover the low testing cows in their horda herds tile ilio chargo charge for testing to Is made by the cow rather than by the herd and dairymen take the samples at home and keep part of the records tho the samples are mailed to a central testing laboratory for testing and for tho the remainder of the record keeping the service Is available to dairymen any place in now york state information Is available from the local form farm bureau onice or from the department of animal huab husbandry andry at tho the state college of agriculture at ithaca |