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Show With these figures In mind It Is very easy to see why there are failures In the dairy business and why, also, there art such marked successes. The way to get and keep a profitable profit-able herd Is to everlastingly weed out the culls, employ better methods by keeping up to date on the new feeds and methods that make greater profit and, lastly but by no means least, to use good, straight purebred dairy bulls with production records back of them. H. R. Laseelles, Fleldman for the Colorado Dairy Commissioner. 1 The, BETTER COWS QUITE ESSENTIAL IN DAIRY Dr. David Friday, formerly president of the Michigan State Agricultural college, col-lege, recently pointed out a fact that Is well known, but, like lots of well-known well-known facts, seldom appreciated. The scrub dairyman gets 120,000 pounds of milk a year from 40 cows averaging 8,000 pounds each. He would be better bet-ter off with 30 averaging 4,000 pounds each because he would get the same milk check with one-fourth less work and overhead. The better dairyman uses 15 cows producing 8,000 pounds each to get his milk check, while the really successful dairyman gets 120,-000 120,-000 pounds of milk from 12 cows averaging aver-aging 10,000 pounds a year. While the successful dairyman gets his 120,000 pounds from 13 cows Instead In-stead of 40, thus cutting his overhead, labor and feed cost by nearly three-fourths, three-fourths, he has an added advantage which has recently been proved by the United States dairy division. The dairy division finds that cows producing produc-ing 100 pounds of fut In a year made an average return above feed cost of $10 each. Cows producing 400 pounds of fat In a year made an average return re-turn above feed cost of $108. Thus It seems tint It only took four times as great production to make the cow ten times more profitable. |