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Show The Bench FARMER . Leo Haueter was telling me the other evening of a very special heifer in his dairy herd that had just come into production. produc-tion. The reason for her being special was that she was from artificial breeding and the first producing offspring in the Roosevelt Roos-evelt area. She produced a nice heifer calf, but appeared to have little udder capacity, which he said was "disappointing" when he expected so much from her. In this case looks were deceiving, deceiv-ing, because at this time, three weeks or so after freshening, she is producing more than 50 lbs. of milk per day from a small, but well-shaped and firmly set udder. If we, as dairy men, were to sit down for one evening and figure out a way to double our income in 5 or 10 -years without increasing the number of cows in the herd or feed consumption, we should feel our time was well spent. The only answer we could come up with to accomplish accom-plish such a thing is to replace the present herd with offspring from bulls proven to transmit high yields in milk and butter fat production. The following are some figures calculated an feed at present prices and on butterfat at a slightly higher price than now exists on grade "C" milk. lbs. butterfat No. of Cows per year 1 500 2 300 4 200 8 150 Return Over Feed Cost Feed Cost $147.00 . $307.00 234.00 308 00 416.00 304.00 776.00' 296.00 From this we see that one 500 pound butterfat cow returns the owner more return over feed cost than do 8 cows producing only 150 lbs. of butterfat each. |