Show D IA DI I ii Pu PRODUCING HIGH-PRODUCING COW IS FAVORED Costs More to Feed but More Than Makes Makes- Makes It Up r Ohio with the sixth largest number of ot dairy cows among the ic important dairying states supports more than third one-third of ot a million cows kept for milking purposes than are actually needed to produce the he same volume I of milk and butterfat now being ob ob- ob tamed This Is the conclusion from I statistics on the dairy Industry of ot th the state tate and on the performance of ot the cows of herds In testing cow as as- Ohio has approximately cows and heifers two years old and andover over A Average production of milk Is about pounds per cow per year Average production of butterfat Is about ICO pounds per year ear But the tte cows In the cow testing associations associations averaged a a production of ot pounds of ot milk and pounds of ot butterfat butterfat butterfat but but- In 1927 1921 If It that had been the average for all the cows In the state only about cows would have been needed to produce the same quantity of milk and only to produce the same weight of butterfat That presupposes that the quality of all cows In the state and their care and management were kept at the same standard as those of ot the cows In Inthe Inthe inthe the cow testing associations Looking at it in another way if It all the cows In the state were brought to the same standards of ot productivity as those of ot the cows cow In the associations th the milk flow in Ohio would amount to to nearly seven billion pounds a year Instead of ot only a little more than four four billion And the butterfat produced produced pro pro- produced would total more than pounds Instead of pounds Charts and records of ot feeding kept In the cow testing associations show that it W costs more to feed the Ugh Ligh- producing cow but that Increased cost costis costis 1 is far below the proportionate gain |