EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V 



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Good authorities tell us that six and eight-tenths pounds of 

 com fed to a good beef steer will produce one pound of live weight 

 worth 12 cents. 



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Chart showing the part of a dollar required to purchase the same 

 amount of food value as is contained in one quart of milk. 



This same feed or its equivalent in cost will produce a pound 

 of butterfat worth 46 cents when fed to a good dairy cow. 



You must sell the steer before you get the 12 cents and you 

 have nothing left. After receiving 46 cents for the butterfat 

 you have the cow left to go on and produce her like and continue 

 to act as a source of income. 



The ditference between the price that the steer returns for the 

 feed and what is received for the butterfat is 34 cents. We think 

 this fair compensation for your labor. 



There is no question that the dairy industry is the leading ani- 

 mal and food producing industry of our country. It makes no dif- 

 ference from what angle you look at the matter, the conclusion 

 is always the same. The dairy cow is the greatest producer of 

 human food w^e know of. One of our agricultural experiment 

 stations has made the comparison between the food produced by 

 a good dairy cow in one year and the carcass of a fat steer weigh- 

 ing 1,250 pounds. 



The total amount of dry matter in the milk was 2,218 pounds, 

 all of which is edible and digestible. The steer, with a live weight 

 of 1,250 pounds, contained 5G per cent of water in the carcass, 

 leaving a total of 548 pounds of dry matter. In this dry matter 

 of the steer is included hair and hide, bones and tendons, organs 



