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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



BETTER THINGS FOR THE DAIRYMAN. 



(By Prof. W. J. Fraser, Illinois Agricultural College.) 



MULTITUDE OF WORTHLESS COWS MUST GO TO THE BUTCHER — 

 HOW TO SECURE THE GOOD ONES THAT MAKE LARGE RETURNS. 



The actual relation of the cow and the herd to the real profits 

 derived from dairy farming is little realized by the people depend- 

 ing upon this occupation for a living. There is no line of farming 

 where well-directed effort will pay so large a profit. Remember I 

 say well-directed effort, for the profits derived from dairy farm- 

 ing depend almost entirely upon the good judgment and common 

 sense used. The profits on the average dairy farm today can easily 

 be doubled. 



THE COW IS THE MARKET. 



A dairyman considers his market the place where he disposes 

 of his milk, cream or butter, and in one sense this is true, but the 

 place he markets the products of his farm as the grain, hay and 

 silage is the dairy cow. The efficiency of the cow consuming these 

 must therefore bear a vital relation to the dairyman's profits. If 

 in a town having two grain elevators, one paid one-half cent bushel 

 more for grain than the other, no farmer would be foolish enough 

 to sell his grain at the one paying the lower price. Yet draiymen 

 will persist in keeping cows year after year that are paying them 

 only twenty-five cents a bushel for grain, while others in the same 

 herd, or that can easily be obtained at a reasonable price, will pay 

 fifty cents a bushel, or even more, for the grain they consume. The 

 difference in price which individual cows are paying for their grain 

 is not so apparent as the difference at the elevators, but it is none 

 the less actual and affects the pocket book just as surely in the end. 



*£*£;/:■■■ 



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ROSE AVERAGED 384 POUNDS BUTTER FAT. 

 ROSE RETURNS SS600 PER YEAR PROFIT. 



QUEEN AVERACED 152 POUNDS BUTTER FAT. 



QUEEN LACKS *2-00 OF PAYING HER BOARD AND LODCINC. 



