Morgan County News | 1932-06-22 | Page 2 | Dairy Facts

DAIRY DA I 1 AD JY PACTS PROFIT MADE FROM GOOD DAIRY COWS day of boarder in herd Is rapidly passing reports from 83 93 dairymen belonging to the eight active herd improvement associations now active in north carolina indicate that the dairy cows cowa of today are more efficient producers than they were even one year ago john jo n A arey dairy extension specialist ci alist north caroline state college says that the dairymen found by their record keeping that cows were wera boarders boarder and therefore unprofitable these were culled and sold to tho the butchers another good indication of the gradual u al improvement being made in dairy h herds erds was that in 1031 1931 there were wera 38 herds which averaged pounds or more of butterfat per cow the actual production of these 33 herds was pounds of milk and pounds of fat per cow in the previous year of 1930 only 22 herds produced as much as ai 8 00 pounds of fat per cow then last year mr arey found two herds berda where the fat production averaged pounds pound or over of fat one of these was a guernsey herd which produced pounds of milk and pounds louada of fat a cow last year and the other was a jersey herd which produced pounds of milk and pounds pound of fat a cow last year these are the first two herds in the state to go above the th pound mark