Show high producing cows are proven to be very profitable the average farmer when told that he h must improve his big cows cowa and dairy methods to malte make moro more money naturally la Is a little skeptical farmers have been sold many times and they have to be shown the facts below beform they believe its easy to realize that perhaps the experiment stations have been successful in pioneering in this or that field ot of dairy husbandry but will th the same eama results happen where the cows cowa must pay the way ot of the farm and send john and mary to college when the practical dairyman Is told ot of high producing cows whose records are am mado mad under favorable condl eions where the cow pays her way not by her product but with her record iho he that la Is alright but I 1 must make my cows pay in the product they produce what mat I 1 need is fa not high i producing cows but mora cows to increase my cream chock check and make me more money to attempt an aa argument of this case would be futile perhaps examples from the records of dirt farm era should be as conclusive na as any A follows ot of the profits bromlow from i low producing pridu cing cows and higher producers in a grade holstein Holst eln herd bred and raised by the man who milked i them only home grown feeds were fed to cows and their feeding and management wals was identical four cows backfire nig chaser and clara had ha na ain n a average production of pounds of butt buttor butter or fat in the cow testing association during the same year rear little spot hlen pet and bobley tad had ani an average production of pounds of butter fat we shall designate these herds as the high herd aad th the low herd both herds erds were owned by the same man ind and were fed and managed under identical conditions the high herd consumed 22 pounds of silage dellage pounds of alfalfa pounds of corn and cob meal 1160 pounds of ground oats amid w were m on pasture n tho the ara average ge of days the low herd consumed pounds of lot silage bounas poun ids of 0 11 alfalfa hay pounds of corn and cob meal 1410 pounds ground oats and were on pasture an average days the feied consumed by the two groups arwas about the same barne bothi both groups finished the year in good condition it Is evident that both groups had an all equal opportunity as tar far as teed feed was concerned however it if the herd had been bean fed according to production the tha teed feed consumed by the low ilerd herd would have been reduced to some extent we must remember mamber rei that both herds were really a part of the same herd and under the same management and had tle cows cowa been of 0 the same ability their production product on would have been more uniform 6 we have established that the high hend are better cows than the low herd now the question quest ioni Is do tho the higher producers pay day with silage beilage valued at per ton reith alfalfa hay bay valued at 2000 per ton corn nd cob meal valued at per hundred ground oats at per hundred cold pasture tor for thirty days and with butter fat at 60 50 cents per pound we can readily determine the profit or loss im 0 of both herds herda the above values of feeds and butter are arbitrary but are considered fair lor for iowa where the records were made in a study of this kind we must use records from other sections as cow testing associations have not been in pera tion tir in duchesne county and no local records are aire available to the taa county agent the total feed cost of the high herd ts Is the feed and labor cost of the high herd Is the feed cost of the low hord herd Is the teed feed and labor cost coat of the low herd Is the feed and labor cost coat la is obtained by considering feed cost as 65 percent of feed and labor cost in this way the ibe average toed feed and labor cost per cow in the high herd was whua while that of the low herd was the value of the butterfat of the high herd Is leaving an average profit of above feed and labor cst cost the value of the products of the low herd Is kl eai an average loss per cow of cows are supposedly kept tor for profit when cows whose average production Is about 40 pounds above the average duchesne cow tall tail to return a profit over teed feed and labor cost of production I 1 say supposedly advisedly A A herd ot of the f arst type would return a comfortable margin to the twiner A herd ot of the second type would pay tor for feed produced on the tarn farm but would not pay cost of labor and other items such as interest taxes tecc A herd of 10 13 cows averaging the profit of our high group would pay their teed feed bill cost of handling and ret return 11 rn to pay taxes etc it if a mans time Is worth anything then a group ot of the low producing average would put the tanner in the hole to the 4 tune une of in a years time and leave him the worry ot taxes interest etc besides here we have taken four ot of the better producing cows in a herd and tow four ot of the poorer producers in the same herd and compared the profit made by the average of each group evidently high producers Is the answer to profitable Inci production |