FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 159 



HOW CAN I MAKE MORE MONEY FROM MY HERD?" 



A Digest of the Experiences and Recommendations of 



Official Testers of Cow Testing Associations in Charge 



of 102,000 Cows from 6,251 Herds in 35 States; 



Breed Assoociations, Etc. Also Extracts from 



Bulletins of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 



and State Agricultural Colleges. 



Prepared by Research Department, National Association of 

 Farm Equipment Manufacturers, Chicago. 



Sweeping and far reaching changes are taking place 

 in the dairy industry of the entire world. The American 

 dairy cow has stood as steadily as the gold standard during 

 the post-war deflation that has shaken the farming indus- 

 tries of the world to their foundations. 



Today, we are faced with the facts that every dairy 

 nation is straining every nerve to gain added advantages in 

 the markets of the world, and those nations heretofore not 

 considered dairy nations are increasing their dairying very 

 materially. 



At home, the American producer suddenly awakens 

 from his sense of security behind his high tariff walls and 

 discovers that no longer does it protect him because pro- 

 duction has arisen above consumption and our dairy busi- 

 ness goes to an export basis in competition with the prod- 

 ucts of the high-producing cows of Holland, Denmark, 

 Sweden, Germany and Great Britain on the one hand and 

 the cheaper-fed cows of New Zealand, Australia, Canada 

 and the Argentine on the other. 



Our dairy farmers are faced with the necessity of cut- 

 ting the overhead on a pound of butterfat. The answer is 

 simple, according to the men in charge of dairying in the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Cow Testing Associa- 



