No. 7. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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the seventh year he had one more cow than he started with. In 

 the tenth j'ear he had seventy-nine cows, and the average production 

 of the herd had been increased 4,070 pounds of milk per cow The 

 increase in butter per cow was 176 pounds. It took 630 more feed 

 units per cow to i)roduce tliis increased amount, but giving the feed 

 units a value of two cents per unit, and the butter a value of thirty 

 cents per pound, he had increased the profit per cow from seventy 

 cows from |25.08 to |G5.28. This means that in the tenth year he 

 received |2,814 more from the same number of cows than he did 

 when he started as a member of the cow testing association. 



Assuming that he could apply the income from his herd to pay 

 off a mortgage on the farm, with a herd like the one he owned the 

 first year he could pay olf a |20,000 mortgage in seventeen jears; 

 while, Avith a herd like the one he had the tenth j'ear, this mort- 

 gage could be paid otf in live and one-fourth years. 



So, you see the value of that part of his life which he puts into the 

 dairy business has been material increased. 



T see no reason why an American Dairyman should not be able 

 to do equally as well. It seems to me that it is only a matter of get- 

 ting started. 



On this second chart we find the average of the Lundatrakten's 

 Cow Testing Association for ten years. 



Lundatrakten's Cow-Testing Association, Sweden 



First, 



Second, 



Third, 



Fourth 



Fifth, 



Sixth, 



Seventh, 



Eighth, 



Ninth 



Tenth, 



Increase, 



There were 639 cows in this association, and figuring the feed units 

 at the cost price of two cents per unit and the butter at its selling 

 value of thirty cents per j)Ound, 639 cows in the tenth year returned 

 f 18,240 more than they did during the first year they were in the 

 cow testing association. There has been a continual increase in the 

 amount of production, as well as in the economy of production. 



Knowing these splendid increases which the cow testing work has 

 accomplished, you will understand why I am enthusiastic about it. 



In stimulating the interest in the work, the Dairy Division is co- 

 operating with State authorities. In this State Prof. Van Norman 



