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Show ' TESTING SHOWS UP LOAFERS- No Progressive or Successful Dairyman Dairy-man Will Keep a Cow on WhicK He Does Not Make a Profit. (By G. U. 1XGAL1.S. Wisconsin Kxp-ri-ment Station.) Cow testing shows the money makers. mak-ers. The best cows in many herds are returning a profit of $100 or niore-every niore-every year. It is possible to have every cow kept do as well. The loafers, the cows that consume.-more consume.-more than they return, are quickly spotted and eliminated when the cow test is used. No successful merchant handles a line of goods on which he loses money; likewise, no progressive dairyman will milk a cow on which h does not make a profit. The milking: of cows is a straight business proposition proposi-tion and no farmer can afford to spenwf his own time or pay high priced labor to milk cows which do not pay for their board. Let's make the $100 return re-turn per cow our standard. To build up a profitable herd the cow test is indispensable. It enables the dairyman to quickly get a high producing herd by selecting heifers from only the best cows. In this connection con-nection the sires that are capable of transmitting dairy quality and temperament tem-perament to their offspring can be proved. The very general practice of sending mature bulls to the block, when they are just in their prime for breeding purposes, is detrimental t our dairy industry and should bn stopped. Cow testing also pays because stir-plus stir-plus stock of both sexes sells for higher high-er prices when buyers can see what the ancestors of these animals have-done have-done in the line of milk and butter fat prod uction. When using the test, farmers maxr Excellent Type for Head of Dairy Herd. know their cows as individual!? ana' feed so as to get the greatest return for every dollar's worth of feed provided. pro-vided. The value of the silo in supplying sup-plying fresh summer succulence during dur-ing the winter months, and in helping out when pastures dry up in the summer, sum-mer, is also shown best when cows arn under test. |