Show STUDY MADE ON COSTS OF MILK additional Addition tal facts on oil what m hot it costs cost formers farmers to produce milk in the large ilk producing centers of illinois cals have hare been obtained by tile the college of agriculture university of illinois in labh ington clinton and badh madison son counties chere liere 13 farmers most of if ahorn were wera ij l huid fluid milk for st louis last made 10 cents abo aboe is all exear pens on every pounds of milk produced thep tanners farmers kept cows which cost them an average of a cow cov mid and produced worth of products during the elie year according to karl T wright of the colt college e diw farm organization arid and management department who summarized tile the records which tile farmers kept in operation cooperation co with the institution these cows produced pounds of milk during the year or an average of G pounds each at all aa average net cost of 5 a hundred most mon of these farmers have been keeping a dully dally record of each cows production nud aud have posed of low lov producers so BO tt it Is evl evi dent that the average farmer fanner in tills this territory produced milk at a loss the feed cost ranged from 01 cents to a hundred pounds of milk produced while the man labor cost varied from 30 cents to 80 cents when figured at 25 cents an hour in other words the feed cost for the year for or each cow varied from 07 to and man labor cost coat from 22 to 47 which shows that there Is much room for improvement while the feed cost a cow was 07 in the one case and in the other it amounted to 10 59 cents a hundred for milk produced in the first case aud and 43 48 cents in the last this shows that cheap production comes not so much from low cost a cow as it does front from high efficiency of the cow A farmer can secure low feed and labor cost on each pounds of milk produced only after lie he has carefully selected kelec ted efficient elU clent high producing cows which he cares for as efficiently as possible on these cows feed made up more than 61 per cent of the costs and man labor nearly 24 per cent charges for use of building and equipment interest on investment in ili cows insurance veterinary eter inary and miscellaneous made up the 15 per cent one of these farmers spent dl hours taking care of each cow while another spent hours and furthermore the production of mill milk was pounds less in the last case there seeds to be very little connection between time and the production per cow it required hours as an average for ill all tile farmers to care for each cow abrou throughout hout the year since feed and labor made up 85 81 I 1 per cent of all costs it behooves the farmer to watch these two items closely as a tiny any reduction he can make in 13 them will greatly increase ills his profit wright pointed out the efficient high producing cow Is the lie most indor tant lant single factor in getting profits |