Show Find That Daily Dairy Herds Are Ale 20 Per Cent Culls A dairy cow that fails to return for every dollar spent on her feed Is seldom worth l keeping That means that she must produce pounds of milk each year at nt present prices according to anal analysis sis of ot cow testing association figures In a northeastern northeastern north north- eastern Ohio county Assuming that dairy her herds s In this count county are t typical of the dalr dairy sections sections sections sec sec- of the state more than 20 per pel percent percent cent of the dairy cows of Ohio ought to be discarded says s 's S. S M. M Salisbury animal husbandry e. e extension specialist at t the Ohio State university Of the cows completing a full years year's test the lowest lowe t ten made an average a production of pounds of ot milk he reports while six cows at the other end of the line averaged 1 74 pounds each for the same pen pe pe- n od In the lowest group of ten are considered consIdered considered con con- all the cows in the survey sun which produced less than pounds of milk a year This is the group that in the opinion of ot most men Is not represented represented represented rep rep- resented in their herds It Is not until until until un un- til the thc scales are regularly used that such cows are credited with their rightful production An average of 1500 pounds for the herd will set the lowest limit for an Individual IndI at pounds This should be our goal In dairy production work ark |