STATE DAIK'V ASSOCIATION. 503 



PATRONS WHO I'EKI) NO CiRAlX. 



No. 14. Six cows; commou stock with a little Jersey aud Holstein 

 blood, of very good dairy type; fresh in spring. Cost of feed, $19.50; 

 ration, good corn stover in abundance, fed in yard in pleasant weather, 

 but when not pleasant, fed in mangers in good comfortable barn. 



Returns for butter fat, $38.27; number pounds of milk, 4,743; number 

 pounds butter lat, 203.G; price of butter fat, IS^S cents; price of milk 

 l)er 100 pounds, 80.7 cents; value of butter for one dollar's worth of 

 feed, $1.06; net profit in butter fat over cost of feed, $18.77. 



No. 32. Eight cows, common stock, fresh in fall. Cost of feed 

 $18.r)U; ration, shredded fodder aud corn stover in winter; in summer 

 pasture only. 



Returns for butter fat, $10.73; number pounds of milk, 1,962; number 

 pounds of butter fat, 84.2; price of butter fat, 19.9 cents; price of milk per 

 100 pounds, 85.3 cents; value of butter fat for one dollar's worth of feed, 



00 cents; value of butter fat less than cost of feed, $1.77 per cow. 



Here we run up against unusual conditions. These two men feed no 

 grain in winter to dairy cows, except what little they might chance to 

 find in the fodder. No. 14 made a good profit and No. 32 suffered a loss. 

 No. 14 told me he used to feed grain, but he was satisfied now that he 

 coidd make more clean profit without feeding it. 



He said he might get a little bigger returns by feeding it. but it was 

 too expensive. He said when he fed grain his cows were all the time 

 looking for it. and would not eat their coarse fodder as well as they did 

 now when they could expect no grain. 



No. 32 e\idently reasoned the same way, but his results w^ere a sad 

 failure. I suppose you are wondering what made the difference. I think 



1 can make it clear to you. No. 14's cows were fresh in the spring. 

 They were wintered without grain, but fed and cared for so well that 

 they were in fair condition, when they came fresh in the spring, and 

 went on to good pasture, and produced well during the summer. 



No. 32's cows were fresh in the fall and they could not keep up the 

 flow of milk on dry fodder without grain in the winter, so when spring 

 came they were so near dry that the summer flow amounted to but little. 



While some men get more out of cows that are fresh in the fall than 

 they could get from them if fresh in the spring, they do it by feeding 

 some grain, and providing succulent food in winter. 



A CHAPTER OF AVERAGES. 



The number of cows kept by these 50 patrons was 282. Average 

 (•<»st of feed per cow, $24.96; average returns in butter fat per cow. 

 $32.20; avor.nge nuinbor pounds butter fat per cow. 1<*><'>: average price 



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