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Show County Agent's Column . IT PAYS TO HAVE GOOD COWS The story is always the same.... it pays to have good cws. A summary sum-mary of the 1943 feed and productions produc-tions records, completed in Dairy Herd Improvement Associations, a-gain a-gain stresses the point. Income over feed cost rises sharply as the production level increases. in-creases. The average butterfat production produc-tion per cow in Dairy Herd Improvement Im-provement Associations in 1943 was 338 pounds. On an average each consumed $99 worth of feed and returned $146 above feed cost. Cows producing 200 lbs. of fat made $GS; cows producing 400 lbs. made $177 and cows producing o-ver o-ver 600 lbs of fat made $287 over feed costs. These figures prove that it pays to have good cows. Why milk a boarder? If you are going to milk cows, run range sheep or cattle, feed hogs the story is the same. The Best pay the Most Profit. LIVESTOCK OUTLOOK i The August 1 number of cattle on feed in 11 corn belt states was down 41 percent from a year earlier. earl-ier. The smallest number on feed since 1937. Cattle feeders report 42 percent fewer cattle than a year earlier that had been grain fed for 7 months. Shipments of stocker and feeder cattle were 31 percent smaller small-er the first 5 months of the year than last year. During June and July shipments were 45 percent greater. With the prospect of fewer cattle cat-tle fed to be margeted before the end of the year, prices for fed cat-te cat-te are expected to continue at a high level. George Whornham County Agent. When early English settlers moved mov-ed to Australia, they took rabbits with them, according to the Australian Aus-tralian News and Information Bureau. Bu-reau. Australia then spent millions of dollars trying to get rid of the offspring of these rabbits. The Aus- |