| Show lowered labor charges in larger dairy herds A survey has recently been made in chenango Che Cheri ango county new york to determine the amount of labor expended per cow on the farms an average of 13 cows was kept hept an average of hours houra was spent per cow in milking caring for the cows and delivering milk to the station when an average of 20 26 cows was maintained this was reduced to hours per cow thus doubling the size of the herd increased the labor requirements only by a third this advantage does not ot go on indefinitely as the herd increases however as the largest her herds s in the group required slightly more labor per cow than those with 20 to 30 cows these herds however had bad the highest production per cow and more fall freshening both of which factors tended to increase the labor requirements on the other band herds of high production make the greatest profits so the labor pas was well expended an increase of 85 per cent in the average production per cow in a herd increased the labor only 27 per cent and the amount of labor per pounds milk was reduced by 23 per cent |
