Show SURVEY SHOWS LARGE COWS MOST producers the small refined dary cow may look best but the big roomy cow pays most profit to her owner according to a survey made by the united states state department of agriculture in making the study large and small cows within one breed bree d were compared both purebred purebreds d a and grades of 0 every age being included on an average the largest cows those weighing 1500 1600 pounds exceeded the smallest cows those cig hinr pounds by 98 the log of 0 butterf butter tt t per cow their cost of feed was 20 higher but they returned 13 43 more per cow in yearly income over cost of feed an analysis of 0 figures obtained in ill te survey shows that as size ot of cow advanced pounds for each graull there was a fairly uniform gain in production of milk and butterfat ler tit in ili coba of teed feed per cow and in n income above teed feed cost on the other land hand there was a slight blight decrease in the butterfat test but ill this was not enough to merit special at though the group figures always favorel favored the large cows it was wags found that many individuals among the large cows in each breed were able producers and that many small cows in each breed were profitable producers therefore There fiore in selecting dairy cows of ani any breed it is not wise to select on the basis of size alone size however la Is a factor ot of great importance |