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Show Thc FURTHER PROOF OF VALUE OF CULLING How New York Dairyman Increased Production. Consistent culling, on the basis of dairy record club tests, has enabled W. C. Hubbard, master farmer of Oswego county, to increase the average aver-age production of his herd from 7,000 to 11,000 pounds to the cow in the past six years, according to C. G. Bradt of the New York State College of Agriculture. From the individual records of milk and butterfat each cow gives, Mr. Hubbard has selected the calves from the best cows for replacements in his herd and has sold the poorer milking and poorer testing cows. He has not purchased any replacements, he says. Mr. Hubbard also finds that he has a better market for surplus stock ; for buyers want cows that have satisfactory satis-factory records. The dairy record cub, or the mail-order testing, which Mr. Hubbard follows, is used by nearly near-ly 700 New York State dairymen, Mr. Bradt says. In this association each dairyman weighs the milk from each cow in his herd and mails the samples sam-ples and records to a central laboratory lab-oratory where the samples are tested and the records are summarized. The charge is made on the number of samples sam-ples each dairyman sends-, rather than by the herd basis. |