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Show j OYTX GOOD COWS . According !o Professor Ben E. F.blredgo. dairy expert of the Utah Ag'ricel tn ra ' College, three factors combine to govern the cost of dairy n-.-iduct':: the animal, the feed and 'he eu"inment. TMs--assing the first of these. Pro-!'f-sor Eldridge has this to say: "How in;'.:",- tla-oiurwut this stale (ednv are milkier eittle that have no dairy ability. caUle that are descended de-scended within a few generations from beef ancestry, and probably mixed with range biood with no disposition dis-position toward milk production further fur-ther than sufficient to partly feed a alt? This is a class of cows. whose milk product for a year in a dairy would reach about "500 pounds, nro-duced nro-duced under the conditions where the price of 4500 pounds of their own product could not pay for the feed consumed and thecare and labor attending its production. The same feed and the same er.re expended on attle whose product would be 7000 pounds of milk "per annum would redu.ee the cost of that prodct to the noint where satisfactory profit could be returned. So we see how important import-ant it is that we dairy with the right kind of cattle. I fix the cost of taking tak-ing care of a cow and feeding her properly for one year at about the price of 60oo pounds of milk (figuring (fig-uring this milk at state standard butter fat which is 3.2 per ceiy.) In some economically managed herds a cow that produces less than that amount is marked for early slaughter, slaugh-ter, but take those figures and let us consider them for a moment. Suppose Sup-pose we have twro cows, whose pro-duets pro-duets is 6500 pounds each. The two ,i(i,,,r Will give us a net profit to f1!1 value of one thousand pounds of milk per annum. Xow take a cow whose yield will be 7000 noun-1 with the same proporf iona re cost for keee and feed, or the value of (loni' ; nounds of milk, and hie- proHt w1'!1 he teen pounds of mill-: which v-ouli' : just equal the profit from the other j two combined,, and this production j occurs with less rNk wk h oul v ore cow tn provide shelter for and with ! other contingent expenses in proportion. propor-tion. Wo make n profit aual to What is made on the other two. Then une."r f'-ed and expense conditions condi-tions outlined above why in't a cow fhat will yield 7 ti n 1 1 nounds of milk ; worth two whose yield is OToui no'; - Stone wi'l sev; "but rh' re :s the carcass to be 'tiltoi into co'i-: co'i-: ii!--:-a 1 ion when ihoe eows tire --.el ' j I'or beef." f'.ut we a. r" no! fe.-aing I i them tor bee", we art' feeding them for milk. Do not fortrct that mi'king j iias to be lone about six hundred 'lin.as a year for from five to six ; years, approximately the length of time the! :1 eow is useful to a dairy. The trouble with many of our farm-ier farm-ier in t!nir dairy operations is that 1 1 y eia't ge; awav i'.-o.-i !;e hoof ""ti' a. I'.et'ol'' We e.itl ever success- "v ' i a dairy business we must work w:;h da:ry ilea;, whh dairy " .auaent ami with daii'v cows l ' |
