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Show fAC fS FEWER AND BETTER ANIMALS IN HERD Illinois Specialist's Advice to Dairymen. Approximately $20,000,000 could be added to the annurtl Income of Illinois farmers keeping dairy cattle, and no more milk would be put on the market, !f the 1,000,000 cows In the state were replaced by 054,230 cows as good as the average cow In the dairy herd Improvement Im-provement associations, according to Prof. C. S. Rhode, dairy extension specialist' spe-cialist' of the college of agriculture, University of Illinois. Fifty-five of these associations or- ganlzed in 7.'i counties by the college extension service are helping herd owners Increase their net returns. The associations supply dairymen at low cost with production and feed record.? and give them help on feeding and management problems. A cow has to give about 250 pounds of buttcrfat a year before she returns enough to pay for her feed, and an equal amount' to cover other expenses, according to records which Professor Rhode has tabulated on 12,001 of the association cows. As It Is, the nver-age nver-age cow In the state produces about 180 pounds. "This is evidence enough that under un-der present low prices higher efficiency effi-ciency In production and Improved feeding practices are essential for satisfactory sat-isfactory returns. "Cows with a production of approximately ap-proximately 400 pounds of fat returned re-turned $140 above cost of feed. A 50-pound Increase In production was good for an additional Income of $20 above cost of feed." |