Show 11 let dairy cow market home grown grain feed the dairy cow furnishes a better market today for teed feed than ever before says H it searles dairy cl alist with the agricultural extension division university of minnesota sir mr searles has been comparing prices and finds that while the prices of dairy feeds have increased 24 per pel cent since ince as 1914 butterfat prices have mounted about 70 per cent in the same period in 1014 with butterfat butter tat selling at 30 20 cents n pound the pound cow returned at a teed feed cost of 45 oi of a return ocr feed cost of 45 says saya mr air sediles seal Seo iles lea in 1027 1927 with butterfat butterf nl at 51 cents a pound the pound cow returned at a feed cost of 0 about S 1 l 1 leaving a return over teed feed cost of 97 tills s cow then in 1921 1927 returned 52 more over teed feed cost than she did in 1914 translated into IBM terms of return over feed costs the la increase crease in fa baior or of 1927 1027 has been around per cent it pays to teed feed grain to good cows for the man who has the cows they are a better market for his feed grain thou than the elevator if he la is short of 0 grain lip lit can afford to buy it at pres ent prices the proper grain ration raifort fed with roughage va will ili greatly increase hla his income for the roughage he Is selling gelling through the cow cow testing association reports report show allow that as the production of butterfat increases from pounds per pow cow to 10 1 SOO W pounds the price received for the roughage rou ange tile the cow eats increases from 5 0 per ton to 30 per ton |