Show UP 0 M 0 PRACTICAL COW TESTING associations YEARLY A averages 5 PER COW anwary z of CK THE SEVEN HEWS HAE betm AV IN WE 2 ta 3 ds 6 I 1 sl il il 1 S ia 1 ag 3 J qed so 50 50 3 SZ zjr I 1 vad 70 iff 1907 60 suzy 2 7 J ja ZM 6 29 1 aw 26 V J 34 41 M 79 7 9 44 at 70 ave aw 63 60 64 aj 44 2533 2531 lat 71 fua 9 72 4 asa st W W 67 ISIO 79 aw 4 nsf ja 66 am 5 4 0 6 we 1 wr 0 00 axy W 7 55 za az 7 al 7 wa 40 6 4 45 zno JS aso 0 ss j 1666 size aff ar 16 zizz w W 69 47 7 WM iek soa jwj 1 73 OM SOS pret red by the th united depart ment of 0 agriculture Aerl culture in popularity dolls have grown rapidly la in lato years increasing about 63 per cent la in the united state in 1914 tho driml au purpose of an association ie Is to put dairy LIB big on a littler basis 1 and to eliminate unproductive cow cows the average an nual tro t reduction of the cow cox of the united states la Is approximately pounds of milk containing pounds of blitter fat though there are many herd with record records of production ay av raging mora than pound pounds and pounds of 0 fat it ia in the low average age production which increases liuro aies the dairyman x troubles ica chief amonn among the causes ol 01 small milk now ilow are the tol fol lowing tho the cow cows are sire not properly fed many ninny of them are not capable 0 of making a large production the farmer baa had no record records and has little idea or which cow cows are making him a lion anil and which are falling to pay for the feed feeds they consume farmers are often prone to believe the tho cowa cows pay in some mysterious viny ay mainly through the manure they produce and thus bring ultimate success the first ali bt cow letting testing association in thin country WM as organized at re mont xich tn in 1905 these peocla eions aro ate now to be found in 30 states and in 1914 totaled of thesa now new york had 29 vermont 28 29 and we wis conlu 11 other keates fol following loing alth much smaller numbers cooperative cow testing did not originate in this ca courtr cou unit indeed the movement ui is still ita li ite its infancy when compared with the number ot association is li in europe where there are between 2 COO and there la in nothing especially difficult dini cult tn in the work ot of keeping records ot of cos but it la is lacally more addan to the farmer to hire ho he test ing dona than to devoid so 0 o much time r to the ork himself the teeter tester hired by the usually has ha special tia laIng in an agricultural aerl cultural college hie his running all the wy from front a short winter cauree to full four aj year years work A knowledge of feeding breedin gp and her tier management ie Is ea as senti oll t I 1 ahe he expense of hiring a man to act 61 as tester taste varies 1 but it not far from a year par which la in divided among lit members in proportion to the num also of cowe cou a they own the member hip ta la necessarily limited to the own aint of clout twenty nix pix herds of ten or more cowa cows each or ope cps herd for each working day la in tho the month mouth tho the coat cost to the members usually li Is about 1 50 a cow a year when the herds contain tain 10 cows cos or over or 15 tor for the herd of fewer than ten cow cos the teeter tester arrives in the afternoon at tho the farm at which ho is to work for the next 24 hours hen the milk log ing I 1 L done he weighs the milk fileti by each cow and takes a sample to teat test of butterfat at feeding time be he weighs the feed given each cow whether she Is in milking or dry and also weigh weighs the roughage that ie iberal eral cows get in order to know the average weight given to each this Is repeated in the morning it Is as lm to have the records of the feed given dry cows as of those that are in milk its a the total cost of feed for the bear ear should be balanced against tho total value of the product t to 0 show the profit or loss on feeding each cow cows s milk in 1 again weighed in tho morning and a sample taken to be with the sample tal taken can at the milking later in the day the samples of milk are tested for butterfat by tho babcock test thus the tester is 13 fortified with the complete data ot of the production of milk and rua batter butterfat fat by each cow la in 24 hours as well as the tho record of all feed con ruined on this one day a average he calculates the amount of production and cost of feed for each cow for the month it may ba be seen that an estimate made mado in this way Is not exact careful studies have shown however that this method elves gives results that are within 2 per cent of the actual production of the cow the findings aro are recorded in a herd book that Is supplied to each member by the state ex perl pert ment station or by the united states department of agriculture the tester is 1 expected to follow tho the local feed market and work out the most economical ration for th the a dairymen when the record books are corn com plated the tester loads his outfit in hie ilia wagon and drives to the next farm where here he la Is to work arriving there 0 the evening milking thus at the small cost of ISO a cow dairymen lave learned that they have kept many cows that did not pay for the feed they consumed the they have aleo also learned that many cows coa in their herd herdit capable of paying for much more teed feed than they more cre in tho habit of allowing them that there ie Is a great dlf dif feco firno in the feeding ballta of 0 feed it attires tures and that equally good mixtures can often be purchased pir chased oa on tha tho market at different prices 1 az COW AV N ME 77 STATES IN ov jw A 1903 va 40 alz sty aw f f 0 J aw ff i 4 7 0 4 X yaw J a 9 is Z 2 77 a 10 40 1 za IV 4 49 a Z 1 X NV 10 24 0 0 0 3 a of 11 10 Z J 0 5 7 0 0 SE S 1 4 j 0 J k 0 a 1 J 4 J if 11 0 0 a a aa J 17 J J I 1 J I 1 t I 1 P 72 4 tf dr ea as CO af |