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Show Dairymen Gain by Better Ways Increased Butterfat Production Produc-tion Brought About by Right Feeding. (Prepared by the United Statei Department of Agriculture.) Owners of dairy cows in California have added $0-1,237,001 to their income in-come over a period of seven years by raising the average butterfat production produc-tion per cow for the entire state from 1S3 pounds In 1920 to 239.2 pounds in 1927, says B. li. Crocheron, director of co-operative extension work In California, Cal-ifornia, in a statement submitted to rhe United States Department of Agriculture. Ag-riculture. On Way to Goal. At the beginning of the effort in 1920 the California extension service set up as a goal, to be reached in ten years, a state average production of 2GC pounds of butterfat per cow. Seven Sev-en years' concentration on a dairy improvement im-provement program. Including proper feeding, breeding, and culling, has brought them well on their way to accomplishment ac-complishment of the goal within the time set. During the seven years the number of cows under test in the regularly organized cow-testing or dairy-herd-improvenient associations increased from 30,000 to over 70,000. The work of these associations is the basis for the improvement program. From the testing records is derived the Information Informa-tion necessary for proper feeding, breeding, and the detection of unprofitable unprofit-able animals in the herd. Other Big Factors. Other factors in bringing up the average av-erage in butterfat production have been competitions both in individual production and community records, efficiency studies of individual herds, use of better breeding stock, improvement improve-ment of health of herds, provision of better facilities for care and management manage-ment of herds, and the introduction of better management methods and better bet-ter stock through the dairy work of boys and girls who are members of 4-H clubs. Only the sustained effort of the extension staff and dairy cattle owners on a long-time program, however, how-ever, Director Crocheron believes, has made it possible to thus move forward the entire production of a state and collectively influence the average of over balf a million animals. |
