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Show SThc. ! BETTER COVS QUITE ESSENTIAL IN DAIRY i Pr. David Friday, formerly president of tlie .Michigan Slate Agricultural col-- col-- lege, recently pointed out a fact that 1 la well known, but, like lots of well-known well-known fact,, seldom appreciated. The scrub dairyman gets lliO.tuwj pounds of ; milk u year from 40 cows aseraging ' ii.Oi'O pounds each, lie would he het- ter off witli iX1 averaging -I.imh) pounds each because he would get the same milk check with one-fourth less work and overhead.' The better dairyman ! uses 7) cows producing 8, DUO pounds each to get his milk check, while the really successful dairyman gets 120,- ! law nils of milk from 12 cows aver- 1 aging 10, mill pounds a year. W'lille the successful dairyman gets j his 120,000 pounds from 12 cows instead in-stead of -'-'), t li us cutting his overhead, labor and feed cost by nearly three-fourths, three-fourths, he lias nn added advantage which has r ri'iiily I con proved by the Fnitcil sillies daily division. The dairy dhi-co-i finds that cows producing produc-ing loll pounds of fat in a year made nn average reicre above fe.-d cost of $10 each. Cows producing -III. I pounds of fat in a year made an average return re-turn above feed cost of ?10!i. Thus It seems that It only took four times as great production to make the cow lea times more profitable. Willi these figures in mit'd it Is very easy to see why there nre fa'lures in the dairy business and why, also, there are 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 pure bred dairy bulls with production records back of them. H. I!. I.ascelles, Ficldman for the Colorado Dairy Commissioner. |