Show pays to test herd the last annual report of dairy herd improvement associations in iowa Is worth reading by every dairy farmer thohas who has courage and ambition enough to want to improve the productive efficiency of his herd held it covers the work from sept september ember 1930 to september 1031 it marks tile the close of the twenty second year of such work in that state more blore herds and more cows cons were tested during this last year vear than during any previous on y year ear the average butterfat produced per cow was aa 14 pounds higher than it has ever been in a previous year the average feed cost per pound fat was about 23 per cent lower than last year ear the above report tells us in convincing figures that it pays pais to test every year jear the dairy farmers whose herds have been tested five years or more had cows that averaged pounds butterfat returning above teed feed cost the herds that had been tested only one year averaged only pounds fat and returned only above feed cost this li Is a difference of 1017 1917 a cow quite enough to pay the testers wages and board with ft ath considerable tax money lt loft over hoards dairyman |