Dairy Herd Records. 



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Besides the fifty-eight herds reporting for a year, forty-three 

 herds reported for six to eleven months. We have collected the 

 results of these reports in the following table, giving the number 

 of cows milked, the number of months reported and the average 

 gross returns for those months. As in the preceding table the 

 figures relating to herds not paying their keeping are printed in 

 heavy type. 



TABLE II. — SHOWING AVERAGE GROSS RETURNS PER COW IN 

 FORTY-THREE HERDS REPORTING FOR A PART OF A YEAR. 



A verage 



gross returns 



per month 



$5.20 

 4.84 

 4.78 

 4.21 

 4.20 

 4.07 

 4.00 

 3.88 

 3.83 

 3.80 

 3.77 

 3.76 

 3.73 

 3.55 

 3.53 

 3.44 

 3.40 

 3.37 

 3.35 

 3.20 

 3.19 

 3.15 



23 

 24 



25 

 26 



27 

 28 

 29 

 30 

 31 

 32 

 33 

 34 

 35 

 36 

 37 

 38 

 39 

 40 

 41 

 42 

 43 



No. of 



cows. 



18 

 10 



8 



11 



6 



10 



16 



5 



7 



8 



5 



8 



12 



6 



7 



5 



6 



33 



18 



No. of 



months 



6 



7 



10 



10 



9 

 9 

 7 

 11 

 11 

 9 

 8 

 8 

 7 

 9 

 8 

 8 

 8 

 9 

 6 

 9 

 5 



A verage 



gross returns 



per month 



$2.72 

 3 15 

 2.90 

 2 89 



2.65 

 2.63 

 2.57 

 2.55 

 2.40 

 2.21 

 2.15 

 2.12 

 2.05 

 2.03 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 1.97 

 1.97 

 1.85 

 1.56 

 1.22 



These two tables should furnish dairymen food for thought. 

 Here is demonstrated the fact referred to above, that there are too 

 many unprofitable cows in our dairy herds. 



These figures, however, do not show how many, for, in order 

 to do this, a record of individual cows must be kept. In some of 



