l62 THE BUSINESS OF DAIRYING 



This summary shows that 687.5 pounds, or 34. 1 

 per cent., more milk, and 31.47 pounds, or 38.9 per 

 cent., more fat were produced from the good ration 

 than from the poor ration, an actual gain in produc- 

 tion of over one-third. 



The cost of the food used to produce 100 pounds 

 of milk and i pound of butter was practically the 

 same for the two rations, viz., 70.2 cents and 14.5 

 cents, respectively, for the good ration, and 70.3 

 cents and 15 cents for the poor ration, yet 34.1 per 

 cent, more milk and 38.9 per cent, more butter were 

 produced from the good ration than from the poor 

 ration with practically the same amount of labor 

 and capital. The results, therefore, indicate that 

 20 cows well fed, yet with no attempt at forcing, 

 would produce as much milk as 30 cows, equally as 

 good, fed an abundance of corn stalks and timothy 

 hay and 4 pounds of corn meal per day. If, then, 

 there is any profit in producing milk from a ration 

 made up largely of roughage of a carbonaceous 

 character, on the basis of this experiment, the profit 

 might be increased one-third by feeding a ration 

 containing a larger amount of concentrated feed and 

 properly balanced in respect to food compounds. It 

 has been claimed that, other things being equal, a 

 small herd well fed will prove more profitable than 

 a large herd poorly fed, and the facts brought out 

 by this study emphasize the correctness of this 

 claim, and point to the importance of good feeding, 

 in the economical production of milk and butter. 



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