Show Ac vale ale of or 3 i Cows Cotes Editors Editor's note This story told by exhibit at Utah dairy shows points up the value of production testing cows to guide dairy management and to know how much profit profit profit pro pro- fit each may be producing Once upon a 3 time there were three cows A B and C Perhaps they looked like your cows in fact maybe there are cows in your herd now Cow C produced pounds of milk per year Note that this ds iS jS the e level produced by the average cow cowin cowin cowin in Utah pounds but it was only enough t td to bring her owner a net profit of for the y year yar ar Cow B annually produced pounds of milk We c call ll her Average because her production equals the average aver of Dairy Herd Improvement Improvement Improvement Im Im- Im- Im provement Association cows in Utah She netted her owner a yearly profit of C Cow w A hit a more desired goal of pounds of milk and made her owner a net profit of for the year The owner of cow C de de- de to make a net profit However with s some me figuring he found he would need such cows to make that much net profit They would require one and one- one half miles of manger and three miles of f individual stalls in sheds His figuring also disclosed that he would need a crew of 39 men just to do the milking Each day the herd would eat five ton 15 loads loads- of hay 2000 bales At normal culling rates he would have four cows leaving leaving leaving leav leav- ing the herd the herd e- e each cl day and anafo four r new ones added Nine cows would calve e each ch day But worse adding to the surplus problem his herd would annually annually annually an an- produce about 27 million million mil mil- lion Hon pounds of milk |