CHAPTER VI 

 TESTING THE FAEM HERD 



No dairyman should keep a cow that produces 

 less than 250 pounds of butter fat annually, and 

 an average ,of a pound a day for 300 days of the 

 year is not too high a standard. Whole herds 

 have frequently been found which produce much 

 more than that. 



The three-hundred-pound standard. In a single 

 month Colantha 4th 's Johanna produced 110.83 

 pounds of butter fat, a larger amount than is 

 produced in a whole year by so-called "dairy 

 cows" in many herds. In all the numerous 

 "official" tests that have been made in Wis- 

 consin during the past few years, very few of 

 the cows have been found to fall below the 

 300-pound mark, and the majority of them exceed 

 400 pounds of butter fat annually. 



Profit on 350 pounds butter production per 

 cow. Adopting 300 pounds of butter fat as a 

 standard which the dairyman may reasonably 

 expect his cows to attain, let us see what such 

 a cow is worth to him. It is well known that 

 the amount of butter made from a given quan- 

 tity of butter fat exceeds the weight of fat by 



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