Show DAIRY DA dry FACT AUTUMN AND WINTER BEST FOR DAIRYING A study of the prices paid for foi creamery butter over a period of 13 years shows that invariably the price per pound paid for butter on the larger markets of the united states Is highest bl during the tall fall and winter and lowest during the spring and months therefore a farmer who breeds his bis cows to freshen in the fall will get more from the volume of cream produced than he would get from the same volume in the spring points out J P lamaster chief of the dairy division of clemson college col leee the fall calf Is also cheaper to raise because it Is fed milk grain and hay during the winter months and by spring Is old enough to t get a considerable amount of its feed requirements f from born pastures while spring born bom calves must be fed milk and grain during summer then grain hay and silage the following winter thus making the spring born bom calf cost considerably more at one year of age than a calf born in the tall fall furthermore ihal aba farmer has more time to devote to the care of the calves in fall and winter than in the spring and summer season when crops require most of his attention this same thing applies to mature cows in that they are giving their greatest flow during the slack winter months and are dry or nearly so go during the dry hot busy season the cow that freshens in the fall la Is fed dry feeds during her heaviest production when nhen the product sells at the highest price and therefore yields a greater return on the teed feed consumed this production comes at a period of the year when nhen it Is easier to deliver a cream of good quality because of cool weather conditions and lack of flies and dust on the other hand the cow that calves in the spring produces her heaviest yield during the busy bummer when hot weather and lies flies make it difficult to deliver a high quality product to the creamery and when the price Is lowest the spring freshened cow does not improve in her milk flow during the fall and winter months but usually goes down in milk during the hot summer months thus making it difficult for her to return a profit on dry feeds she will ISO be dry in late winter months and must be fed on dry feeds when she Is not returning an income when spring comes new pastures help boost the milk flo flow of the cow which freshens in the fall and thus she nill finish her lactation period alth high product production lon in spring the price begins to fall off but the cow IN 1 producing at a cheaper rate because she Is on pasture she Is then dry during the hot season when butterfat sells at the lowest price and when farmers are busy with their field crops |