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Other reasons cannot be considered when making comparisons, 

 leaving 203 cows only with absolute complete records for the 

 year. 



TABLE 2. SUMMARY OF AVERAGES. 



No. — Amount. 





Pi 



Highest Producer . 



8— 10,000-over. . . . 

 14—9,000-10,000.... 



26—8,000-9,000 



41—7,000-8,000 



40—6,000-7,000 



39—5,000-6,000 



25—4,000-5,000 



10— 4,000-less 



Average of whole 



12,275 463.50 



10 ,875 

 9,396 

 8,434 

 7,381 

 6,499 

 6,540 

 4,605 

 3,061 



7,094 



380.3 

 343.4 

 301.3 

 277 . 1 

 239 . 6 

 209.3 

 176.0 

 117.4 



262.3 



$106 80 8119 23 48.56 58. 24i $ 87 



$88 59 

 88 25 

 83 46 

 81 18 

 73 59 

 65 91 



56 61 



57 22 



$83 04 



$106 

 79 

 63 

 52 

 43 

 34 

 27 

 -4 



51 . 26 $0 



50.02 



45.17; 



82 37.33 



1838.23 



86138.29 



11 38.47 142. 72 



65i37. 501.36.09 

 7632 

 58 27 



56,33. 

 20 29. 



$49 48 



36.62 



38.17 



20 



14 

 02 

 61 



39.66 $ 87 



$ 228 '$2 12 



$0.2328 

 .2592! 

 .27291 

 .2929 

 .3071 

 .3147 

 .3216 

 .4874 



2 21 

 1 90 

 1 77 

 1 64 

 1 59 

 1 52 

 1 48 

 93 



$1 59 



Table No. 2 shows the production, cost of production, and 

 profit above feed cost of 203 cows completing a year's work. 

 The cows are classified in order of the amount of milk produced. 



Table No. 2 is exceedingly striking and interesting. It shows 

 a decrease in profit with a decrease in production. The eight 

 highest producers gave an average profit of $106.82 above feed 

 cost while the ten lowest producers failed to pay for their feed, 

 losing on an average of $4.25. The return for $1.00 wcfrth of 

 food consumed varied from $2.21 to S.93 ; the cost of producing 

 100 pounds of milk from S.81 to $1.86. 



Cows that produced less than 4000 pounds of milk per year 

 did not give enough milk to pay for their feed. The cows 

 here recorded only returned $.03 for every dollar's worth o? 

 food consumed. In addition there was no return for labor or 

 housing or interest on investment on such cows. 



The columns "Profit above feed cost of producing 100 lbs. 

 of milk" and "Returns for $t.oo worth of feed" show clearly 

 that the largest producers on the average are the most profitable. 



The average feed cost for the eight cows producing over 

 10,000 pounds of milk is quite low, due to the fact that four 

 of the eight cows were fed heavily on silage, as high as 4^ 

 pounds per day, with meadow hay and oat hay as roughage. 



