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this milk? The cost of feeding those cows was $12.18. That is the figure 

 at what you could place the feed upon the market for. It does not figure 

 hay at $13.00 a ton; I figured it at $10.00. He had fed $12.18 grain and 

 roughage; received $10.80 for milk, which is a loss of $2.11, a direct loss 

 upon the milk. He received his skim milk back, valued at $2.77, figuring 

 it at 25 cents a hundred. Figuring corn at 56 cents a bushel, your skim 

 milk is worth 30 cents for feeding young stock. He received $2.77 worth 

 of this skim milk to feed to his young animals. That gives him, includ- 

 ing skim milk and amount received for butter fat overhand above the 

 ^ost of feed 66 cents profit on 12 cows for one week. That does not include 

 the labor, and that is that herd's best week of profit. Twenty-five cents 

 a pound for butter fat, milk 75 cents per hundred; average test was 3 

 per cent. The ration? I figured the same prices on all herds, so compari- 

 son will be on the same basis. The ration he was feeding here was 10 

 pounds crushed corn; 40 pounds silage and 10 pounds stover. 



Q: — That price is too low for milk. 

 • A:— Will you pay $1.02 for 3 ppr cent milk? 



Q: — They pay $1.02 on average test. The average test is 3.80. 



A: — You have almost a 4 per. cent test. This is 3 per cent milk and 

 selling by the test. 



Q: — Are you figuring on that one herd? 



A:— Yes. 



He was feeding 23 pounds of dry matter to that herd. There was 

 about 1.32 pounds of protein and 15 pounds of carbohydrates; that ration 

 was extremely rich in carbohydrates and extremely low on protein mat- 

 ter. It is a poor ration. His herd was in bad condition. Their udders 

 have become caked and he has disposed of six of them already because 

 he has found out through this work that they are not paying cows. His 

 silage is sour. He is giving them all a corn ration and the combination 

 seems to be bad at the present time. 



Q: — Were they dual purpose ccws? 



A: — I should call them common natives; you might call them dual 

 purpose cows. 



