Show FEWER AND BETTER ANIMALS IN HERD illinois specialists advice to dairymen approximately could be added ed to tho the annual income of illinois armors mers keeping dairy cattle and no more ore milk would be put on the market if the cows in the state were replaced by cows as good its as the average cow in the dairy herd improvement pro associations according to prof 0 S rhode dairy extension specialist of the college of agriculture university of illinois fifty five of these associations organized in 73 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 records and give them help on oa feeding and management problems A cow has to give about pounds of butterfat a year before she re turns returns enough to pay for her feed an and d an equal amount to cover other eapen expenses s es according to records which professor rhode has tabulated on of the association cows As it Is the average cow in the state produces about pounds this Is evidence enough that under present presen t low prices higher efficiency in production and improved feeding practices are essential for satisfactory is returns cows cowa with a production of approximately pounds of fat returned above cost of feed A 50 pound increase in production was good for an additional income of 20 above cost of feed |