Show more good cows cow s needed on farms C cow 0 w testing associations show individual production records ap pp prepared red by the united states state department of ag agriculture culture first class clasa profitable dairy forma are usually found in groups the enter center of each group Is some soine farm farill some soine man some borne idea says the united states slates department of agriculture Agri the cow testing test ins associations now active in tile the united santes represent that many groups of improved dairy furina what has hit 8 been be n flee mccoin on I 1 ty ly those these groups for tile the dairy Indu industry find for the lie in members embers of these associations la Is told in farm farmers P rs bulletin 1440 entitled cow testing aso asio clation clu tlona sand and stories the It erds tell and ix Is now flow ready for distribution the purpose of tills this bulletin s to show tile tho need and the va tit of cow testing associations to pr aresia enit briefly bocc of the outstanding results obtained from a tabulation of cow test ing association data daan anti and to show liow how such associations inay ile be organized find and conducted more good cows needed in most sections of tile the country we have enough cows coa but riot not booi gooi enough cows cowa says anya the author of the bulletin our slogan should not be moro afore cows but more afore good cows here la Is one place where there Is tin an abundance of room fit at the lie top knowing the individual production records of tile cows in the herd la Is one way M ay i get more inore good cows flits information ls 14 made aval available lable to n through the cow testing association in the newaygo icv county midi mich cow testing association lie file herd that lint one benr had file lie highest average everag production of butterfat tier per ov consisted consIst Pd d of 10 cows and the lie herd that aliat biad hit the lowest ti average production consisted of 20 cows cowa tile the herd of 10 cows lind had a total income oer cost of feed of WM ano and the lit herd of 20 vows cows SW 45 the owner of the stirrer lar lierd herd needed 0 9 more rows cows of the kind lie wa keeping to get ns as much income over coit of feed as was ns produced liy by tile the Hin smaller aller lierd herd it li 14 better bowmer lio weer to own oun 10 good cos cons than limn ri 21 poor olies it damanda 1 I lens labor and tin other costs to ro build up ill a hertl of 11 10 good cows requires lillich headwork to take tahe eme cine of if a lierd of 29 poor nir cows co s requires indich hand liuni lirk ork the ulio ao 10 doca not we ir c ills his head must bork ork harder with lil III hil hillias lids the alue of association records if q not ted to tile of 0 tile ho females of the herd tut I 1 lit may also be used to determine the lie trite value of the herd bull or tile bulla lt I 1 tile tho bull association in the lie inley I of drove rove city pa there are two bull associations find and one cow testing association front from the he titter latter records fire are now flow available for tile he yearly pro pio of 18 daughters of the lie hull bull association bulls is as well jis as for tile the dani dam of each daughter what records show ahn ahn fill all re records coris were i maturity it was found that ov on tin an average the danis dams produced pounds of mill in it year find and the daug litera pounds the dains averaged pounds of butterfat it a year car arli and the daughters 91 pounds thus the dangl ers produced about 5 per cent more milk tin and about 11 per cent more butterfat butler fat than their daius tin figures further showed that lint tile the laughters wore ere li bv esix bulls find anil that in n case did tiny any daughter bring discredit to ditl sue lire what would hll happened imp anil cn il if the die 18 daughters had been binl li arub rul or inferior I 1 tills lulls Is not haril 0 o gnesa glies in nearly every case a cow testing lesting a association ss cl lt lo 10 1 depends l upon the activity of 0 f a few f e w progressive pro gres sive furriers furr ners anti and waters centers around the idea that every dalry dairy nian should know the individual records of ills his cows if lie fie Is to manage find and develop his herd profitably the knowledge can call he be obtained through cow testing association records A copy of the bulletin telli telling nv ho 7 to stint start and conduct tin nn may he secured free fire fi re of cli birge as aa long I 1 its as the lie supply fists by writing to the united states deportment department of agriculture washington I 1 D C |