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Show SELLING PROFITLESS COWS. Test Your Herd and Find Out the Poor Ones. It Is gonorally conceded that tho avorago cow will eat about $40 worth of feed each year. If tho herd has not produced 200 pounds of butter por cow that will soli for an nvor-ago nvor-ago of 20 cents por pound thoy have certainly not nil paid expenses. Most of us know which nro tho good cows and which are tho poor ones. If wo aro not cortnln about the quality of tho milk, ns rogards buttor fat, produced pro-duced by each cow, It Is an easy mat-tor mat-tor to test them and know. Tho weeding out process may seom llko a sovoro ordeal, but It must ho dono before tho fnrm dairy is made a paying pay-ing proposition. It does not pay to keop .n poor cow to eat nnd mako manure to keep up tho fortuity of tho soil, says Orange Judd Farmer, when a good producing cow will do thnt part Just as well, and nt the sumo tlmo will pay for her koop, tho lnbor bestowed in cnrlng for her, nnd return n prollt beside. |