SELECTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL COW 



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TABLE 4 



COMPARISON OF THE FIVE MOST PROFITABLE AND THE FIVE LEAST 

 PROFITABLE Cows IN THE STORRS EXPERIMENT STATION HERD 

 FOR FIVE YEARS 1 



Here we find the average cost of feeding the most profitable 

 cows during five years was $ 8.14 each per year more than the 

 cost of feeding the five least profitable cows for the same 

 length of time, while the difference in the production of the 



1 Bulletin No. 29. 



