Show easier to care for small herd fewer cows can be managed accordine Accord inz to o individual requirements by E ae JT J pera perry Exten extension slon dairyman new jersey ersey college t agriculture service arvice one reason why small herds average higher in production than larger herds is that each cow in a small herd can be more easily fed and managed according to her special requirements in a recent survey of the new jersey herd improvement associations it was found that cows in a herd of nine averaged pounds of milk a year and the average cost of food per pound of butterfat produced was cents A cow in a herd of 18 animals averaged pounds of milk a year and her average feed cost per pound of butterfat was cents I 1 yearly milk production of a cow in a herd of 27 cows was pounds and the feed cost average for each pound of butterfat was 41 cents in view of this survey and because of the prevailing high prices of grain and hay it would pay every dairyman this winter to regard each of his cows as a distinct machine machin e and treat her acco accordingly feeding all cows the same amount of grain mixture results in seriously underfeeding under feeding the high producers while the low producing cows reduce the net returns from the herd by being overfed every cow should be given all the good roughage she will eat but high producers need more grain than the less productive animals because of the different fat tests of their milk separate breeds of cows require different amounts of grain and feeding grain to the animals according to the following scale is recommended HoI holsteins steins feed 4 pound of concentrates cen for each pound of milk above a yield of 16 pounds daily Ayr shires and brown swiss feed 45 pound of concentrates fo for each pound of milk above a yield of 14 pounds daily feed 55 pound of concentrates cen for each pound of milk above a yield of 12 pounds daily jerseys feed 6 pound of concentrates for each pound of milk above a yield of 10 pounds |