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Show FARM NOTES J BY LEW MAR PRICE County Agent Dairymen Keep Records Thirty-one Beaver county dairymen dairy-men with a total of 355 cows will keep records of production of each individual cow during the next 12 months. These have already received re-ceived their barn sheets and record re-cord books, and new ones are coming com-ing every day. Cows in dairy herd improvement improve-ment associations that had an average ave-rage production of 164 pounds of butterfat a year (which is the same as the average production for all cows milked in the U. S. last year) produced butterfat at a feed cost of 25 cents per pound. The average dairy herd improvement improve-ment association Sow produced 313 pounds of butterfat at a feed cost of 17 cents a pound. If a factory manager found that one type of machine was more efficient than another, and that the more efficient machine required re-quired only 17 cents worth of fuel to produce an article, as compared withi 25 cents worth required by the less efficient machine, he would immediately discard the latter, because it would mean a gain of 8 cents additional profit on every article produced. In addition he would probably run his efficient machine to capacity. The above 31 dairymen with 365 cows will be joined by many more of the progressive dairymen of the county within the next 30 to 60 days and Beaver county's dairy mnchines will be more closely close-ly scrutinized to segregate those with a 25 cent operating cost from those with a 17 cent operting cost. Barn sheets and record books are avnilable without cost for anyone any-one who wants to keep his record. |
