| Show ew TO GET INCREASED INCOME FROM DAIRY mw iture farm laboratory great help prying into the secrets of milk yields with the help of miniature cow testing laboratories may result in an increased dairy income according to S M salisbury professor of ani ant mal at husbandry at the ohio state hersity who believes th that atwith with theli the help elp of production and cost records ob tallied in this way it is possible to secure the maximum income from the herd herd improvement associations he says enable the dairyman to discover slacker cows not paying for their board increase e his income by feed ing individual cows according to their production records and to improve his herd by proving sires through the production records of their daughters it Is good to know that these cows are producing a large and profitable flow but the real proof of the abil ity of a sire is obtained by combar ing the production of his daughters with that of the dams from which they came it is possible that a sire might have good producing daugh tero yet they may be glozr lower in production than their dams the con tinned use of this sire would lower the production of the herd it is as well to find the bull that lowers production as it Is to discover the one that Is capable of increasing it if a dairyman has a herd of cows capable of making pounds of fat per year he has a fair chance of selecting a sire that will increase the production of chiq hl herd bulls have been able on the average salisbury points out to increase the production of daughters over dams until pounds of fat is reached after this point it is increasingly difficult to find a sire that will increase fat pro flo however wever if the dairyman has never kept records on his herd he Is in no position to know cheth er his herd sire hai boosted or low ered the producing ability of his cows time to give thought to the summer feeding care and feeding of cows during the summer months has a direct bearing on the next winter winters s production this Is shown by the experience of a john son county iowa herd improvement association member ile did not feed grain to cows on pasture in the summer of 1929 then when he took the cows off pasture and started winter feeding he noticed they were run down in flesh and that thir milk production did not come up to what it should the cows utilized the grain to ta build up their bodies las summer the owner fed grain mixture according to production through the pasture season the ra tion consisted of pounds of corn and cormeal pounds ot of ground oats and pounds of high protein concentrate ills cows were in good condition when they came into the winter feed lots and were able to increase production and give normal response to winter feeding and card successful farming management counts that the dairyman himself Is the most important animal oa on the dairy farm is strikingly shown by a study of the cost of producing butter tnt tat carried on by the sota aari u cultural experiment station and the united states department of agri culture in pine county minnesota about 25 herds were included in the study which extended over a three year period making 77 herd year records results of this survey are shown in minnesota bulletin to study the effect of management the dalry dairymen men were divided into four groups thosa those rated good secured 17 per cent more fat from the same eed than did ehms rated fair whereas the group rated poor obtained only 70 per cent as much tat fat from the same feed as did the good group differences in ity of management accounted for more differences in p than did all other factors combined dairy notes Lea leaving machinery standing out doors Inre increases ases farm exp expenses anses and cuts down profit z in october cows were culled android in 55 new york state dairy h improvement associations giving your dairy barn a good sya tern tem of ventilation means healthier stock and purer milk in the winter 0 in a year or two many farmers will be kicking themselves because they did not buy dairy cows when they were cheap A new camphire dairyman recent ly built a 16 by 48 safety bu bull 11 pen in eluding breeding rack for a cash cost of about 13 every dairyman should be sure that his herd sire has better breed ng than the cos cons in the herd in no other practical way can herd producing ca opacity be increased |
