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you have got to buy it there is where the trouble is; so with 

 my Holstein cows I like to feed one pound of this mixture 

 to every three and three and a half pounds of milk which 

 they produce. 



That may be open to some argument. With my Guern- 

 say cows I like to feed, by testing, between one pound of 

 this grain to every two and a half to three pounds of milk 

 which they produce for me. You say the Guernsey is the 

 middle ground. Perhaps it is; I am not discussing pro- 

 duction at this time. We have got to come to some under- 

 standing as to what these cows are going to consume and 

 what it is going to be worth to the cow. I take a great deal 

 of pleasure in knowing when a cow gets down to a certain 

 level, how much she is costing me to feed her. I haven't 

 a cow in my yard that begins quite so low as this, but a cow 

 that weights one thousand pounds, when she gets down in 

 her lacteation period, either when going dry or otherwise, 

 that she is giving ten pounds of milk per day — and of course 

 a cow that doesn't give more than that per day ought to 

 be shot to begin with — but she is going to cost me $1.95 

 per hundred to reproduce her. A cow that produces twenty 

 pounds costs me around $1.30. 



These are simply chart figures in which I like to talk 

 with my fellow dairymen, and which I can explain to him 

 in ways in which he is educated to what we are doing. 



A thirty-pound cow costs me around $1.10 to produce 

 one hundred pounds of five per cent milk. A cow produc- 

 ing forty pounds of milk costs one dollar, one dollar and 

 two cents, and sometimes we have a cow around a thou- 

 sand pounds that may give fifty pounds. Her milk is never 

 quite as rich as these, only about four to four and a halt 

 per cent, and we can produce that milk around ninety-five 

 cents. 



Then comes materials of Holstein cows. A 1200-pound 

 cow when she gets down to a point of production of only 

 fifteen pounds of three and one-half per cent milk, costs 

 me $1.70 to produce that milk. Around 30 pounds of milk 

 costs me $1.05. Forty-five puonds of milk per day can be 

 produced at a cost of ninety cents, and around 60 pounds 



