Show FARM TOPICS GOOD DAIRY COW PAYS ITS ita BOARD high producing animals prove more profitable by ELMER J MEADOWS one dairy cow that produces pounds of butterfat butter tat a year will return as much money above feed cost as two cows that produce pounds or more than 13 cu cows WN that average pounds of butterfat butter tat annually what experiments at the colorado state college indicate says elmer J meadows one pound cow will return above feed eed cost during a year according to figures meadows has compiled from actual experience this figure Is based on butterfat selling at 40 cents a pound two cows each producing p pounds oun ds ol of bu butterfat tt arfat a year will return only 4 a year more above the feed cost than the pound cow and will cost to feed eed compared to the teed feed cost of the large producer thirteen pound cows will return above feed eed cost during a year and it will cost to feed them if the extra labor required to milk and care for 13 cows producing pounds of butterfat each compared to 2 producing pounds each is figured it would further emphasize the necessity of keeping and breeding only cows with the ability to produce large amounts of milk and butterfat and so the question evolves why not take a few cows that produce at least pounds of tat fat a year rather than a whole corr alful of 0 the pound group that produces only about 20 pounds less than the average dairy cow in the united states |