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Cow Testing Association should help organize one through 

 his local Farm Bureau and then he should follow the test- 

 er's instructions for getting at bigger profits. Above all, 

 he should stick with the association and keep increasing his 

 herd's average annual production. 



To give farmers an idea of the meaning of modern time 

 and labor-saving equipment in putting their dairy herds on 

 a basis of greater profit through cheaper feeding, testing 

 and cutting out man-labor costs, the Research Department 

 of the National Association of Farm Equipment Manufac- 

 turers has surveyed the 732 Cow Testing Associations, the 

 herds of the Wisconsin Registry of Production cows, the 

 Indiana 300-Pound cows, the Holstein-Friesian Association 

 of America's 1000-pound butterfat producers, as well as 

 those of the American Jersey Cattle Club, and the Ameri- 

 can Guernsey Cattle Club Advanced Registry herds. The 

 following table tells the story of labor and feed saving in 

 American dairy herds from the "average farmer's" herd 

 with which the Cow Testing Association begins, up to the 

 highest producing herds in the world of dairying: 



Holstein- American 



Friesian Guernsey Cow 



Assn. Cattle Club Wis. Testing 



1,000 lb. "A. R." ''R. O. P." Assns. 



Cows 140 2133 748 102,830 



Herds 22 51 36 6,193 



*Silos 313 % 190 % 155 % 81 % 



Cutters 123 % I6V2 % 72 % 32 % 



Stanchions 100 % 92 % 81 % 21 % 



Cups 86 % 82 % 78 % 19 % 



Carriers 73 % 63 % 14 % 5 % 



Ventilation 68 % 69 % 50 % e.6 % 



Tractors 200 % 76 ¥2 % 50 % 34 % 



Gas Engines 168 % 90 % 125 % • 72 % 



'■'Percentages of herds equipped with silos, ensilage cutters, swing- 

 ing stanchions, drinking cups, feed carriers, ventilation systems, trac- 

 tors and gas engines are given in all cases for the herds as reported by 

 the official testers. 



Quality Cows Pay. 



Dr. David Friday, formerly president of the Michigan, 

 State Agricultural College, recently pointed out a fact that 

 we all know but seldom stop to realize, namely, that the 



