Cows 



Per 



Milk a 



nd Butter 



Labor 





Farm 



per 



cow 



Income 



24 



33 



$90 



$101 



$837 



[66 



29 



83 



86 



487 



83 



25 



81 



81 



178 



FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 13 L 



work. This labor income means the returns that the man gets 

 for his mental and physical labor. 



The relation of pure bred, grade and scrub bulls to the re- 

 ceipts per cow : 



No. herds with pure bred sires. 124 

 No. herds with graded sires 

 No. herds with scrub sires . . 



The herds are a little larger where they have the pure bred 

 sires. The receipts per cow was $9 more with the pure bred 

 sire than with the scrub, and $7 more than with the grade. But 

 the proof of the whole thing is what a man has left in his 

 pockets at the end of the year. These figures were taken from 

 124 farms. This labor income is more than four times as great 

 where they have pure breds than where they have scrubs. There 

 are other things that enter into this, however. It is not the sire 

 alone, but the man who has the pure bred sire probably does 

 other things better on the farm. Most of the cows were grade, 

 some of them pure bred. 



Crop index related to labor income — percentage of yield in 

 proportion to the acreage : 



Xo. Farms. 



Per 



centage 



of Crop 



Yield. 



Labor Income 



29 







•59 





— $ 



141 



50 







.70 







38 



104 







.81 

 .91 





« 



236 



154 







. 100 







624 









.110 

 .120 

 .130 

 .149 







676 



685 



824 



[,269 



Take those 29 farms with only 59% crop yield, the labor 

 income was minus $141. They are not getting rich very fast 

 and are paying $141 a year for the privilege of being dairymen. 



