Show DAIRY TRADITION RUINED BY FACTS common belief among dairymen that cows freshening in the spring product produce milk more economically thin than tows coir freshening st at other seasons ot of the year does not check with the pure pare facts evidence against this common opinion has come to rural economists at the be ohio state university from the study of records kept for five year by medina county dairymen the economists divided the herds into three groups those in w which aich less than 25 per cent ceat of the cows freshened la in three spring months MOMS march april may thoe those in which between 25 and 35 per cent of the cows freshened in the spring and those herds in which more than 35 per cent of the cows freshened in the fall records on these groups showed that costs of feed and labor were reduced in both groups where spring freshening was praet practiced leed more exten sl direly rely production per cow ln increased creased however and cost of producing pounds of milk decreased as the proportion of spring freshened cows la in the herd increased production per cow during the five fire years yean averaged pounds a year la in herds where fall freshening predominated 7 pounds in the halt way group and 3 pounds in the herds where spring freshening predominated costs of producing pounds of milk varied accordingly from in the he fall fri freshening bening group to r 1 in the faring freshening group |