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increasing proportion of milk produced in November average milk 

 costs decreased for the first three groups. This is explained by other 

 averages for the groups -which indicate increases in production per 

 cow, fewer hours of human labor per cow, and more milk per man. 

 Milk costs had a tendency to increase in the last two groups although 

 not very consistently. As would be expected, average prices for milk 

 increased rather regularly with more winter milk production. 



Table 83 — Relation of distrihution of milk production to cost of milk and labor 



income (November-June ratio) 



* Farms omitted on which milk was not produced in either of the months of \ 

 June or November. 



Labor incomes reflected the advantages of lower costs, higher prices 

 and better production. The labor incomes of the first two groups com- 

 prising 122 farms with less than 75 per cent as much milk production 

 in November as in June were conspicuously low. The 120 farms with a 

 November-June ratio around 100 provided labor incomes averaging 

 over $700. The last group of farms with a ratio of 173 and an average 

 production of only 5,002 pounds of milk per cow got an average labor 

 income of $488. In contrast to the groups with low ratios of milk pro- 

 duction, this last better average income can be mostly explained by 

 higher prices for milk. 



In Table 84, this same group of farms was sorted by the per cent of 

 total milk produced in October, November and December. If milk pro- 

 duction were equal throughout the year, the figure for three months 

 would be 25 per cent. Again, this table indicates that more milk pro- 

 duction in the fall was advantageous, resulting in better production 

 per cow, higher prices for milk and less cost per hundredweight. Both 

 the amount of milk handled per man and the man hours per cow were 

 improved by a proportional increase in production for the herd during 

 the last three months of the year. 



A few operators, by chance or otherwise, got twice or even three 

 times as much milk in November as in June. Doubtless, this condition 

 resulted occasionally from planning to establish a new or better rating 

 and, as such, may have been justified. There is no indication from the 



