38 ELEMENTS OF DAIRY TYPE 



Tests of Economy. — The efficiency of cows possessing the 

 dairy type as against those not having such form was well brought 

 out by the figures contained in Minnesota Bui. ISTo. 67 (1900), 

 from which the following tables are arranged : 



Test I 



Dairy Type Not Dairy Type 



Gross receipts '. $77.77 $54.40 



Cost of feed 30.82 28.21 



Net receipts $46.95 $26.19 



Amt. returned per $1.00 worth 



of feed 2.52 1.93 



The dairy-type group consumed 9.25 per cent more feed, but 

 yielded 43 per cent more butter. On the average they consumed 

 $2.61 worth more feed per cow but returned $21.76 more for 

 butter. 



Test H' 



Dairy Type Not Dairy Type 



Gross receipts $41.55 $28.03 



Cost of feed 15.14 13.86 



Net receipts $26.41 $14.17 



Returned per $1.00 expended 2.74 2.02 



The group of dairy-type cows returned nearly twice as much 

 profit so far as dairy returns are concerned as the non-dairy-type 

 group. 



Test III 



Dairy Type Not Dairy Type 



Gross receipts $75.7 1 $51.01 



Cost of feed 37.60 30.64 



Net receipts $38.1 1 $20.37 



Return per $1.00 2.01 1.66 



The dairy-type group, on an average, consumed 22.7 per 

 cent more feed but retiimed 48.4 per cent more butter and 87 



' This winter's work was done when feed was unusually cheap. 



