| Show lull FINDS MILK COSTS FROM COWS showing difference between profit and loss declaring that the dairy herd improvement pro associations are often responsible for the me difference between profit and loss in dairy farming ivan mckellip extension specialist in ant animal husbandry at the ahlo ohio state university ver sity points out that the associations are making it easy to practice selective breeding to eliminate low producers and to teed feed individual ual cows according to their production records mr air mckellip McKell lp states that last year the ohio cows in the dairy herd improvement associations averaged pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat they made above fee feed costs which amounted to 93 03 I 1 and they produced a product worth the feed cost for pounds of milk was and tile the feed cost for producing one pound of butterfat was cents the average labor income from the average association cow was approximately 00 and the average labor income per hour per cow was about 60 cents according to dairy herd improvement figures the dairy farmer milking an average herd of cows and getting tile the average market price for the milk la Is making only six cents an hour for the time lie he spends with his herd this Is 54 cents less per hour than the herd association member makes dairy herd improvident associations mckellep McKell lp declared have been operating in the state for the past 10 years the Barnes barnesville ville association in belmont county Is the oldest it Is no longer an experiment but a decided help in keeping yearly milk butterfat feed and cost records on each cow in the association knowing each cows production these men have been able to increase the production of their cows in eight years from pounds of butterfat to ago pounds of butterfat As ordinarily conducted he stated a dairy herd improvement association is an organization tiou of between 20 and 50 00 dairymen who operatively cooperatively co employ a man to keep areep production feed and income records of their cows |
