Improvement of Missouri Herds. 



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or $34.50 worth for the year. There is some difference between 

 these cows and their incomes. (See figs, 12 and 13.) 



"If it costs $32 per cow for feed in the poorer herd, just $2.50 

 per head is left as the profit for one year. But if the better herd 

 is fed at $40 per cow, it leaves $48.50 per head as a profit. Here is 

 a diffeuence of $46 in clear gain, or, in other words, it takes 19 cows 

 of the one kind to equal one cow of the other kind. In a herd of 

 40 cows this difference would amount to $1,840. 



"If a man desired to make $1,000 per year profit in the dairy 

 business, he would have to keep 400 of these poor producers. But 

 he would get the same results with 21 cows like those in the better 

 herd." 



IOWA. 



Comparative records of the cows kept at the Iowa Experi- 

 ment Station, Ames, Iowa, as reported by Mr. C. H. Eckles, who 

 had charge of the herd during the time this record was made. 



BUTTER FIGURED AT 20 CENTS PER POUND AND SKIM MILK AT 20 CENTS 



PER CWT. 



Notice the difference between the best and the poorest Hol- 

 stein, both pure, one making two and one-half times more money 

 in the year than the other. Notice again the extra difference in 

 profitableness of the Shorthorns, the best more than 12 times as 

 profitable as the poorest. The Red Poles offer a very neat condi- 

 tion, there being only eight cents difference in the cost of their 



