PRODUCING MARKET MILK IN EASTERN NEBRASKA. 5 
difference was accentuated by the fact that an entire year intervenes 
between the two years during which the records were taken. 
The amount of human and horse labor was less than it would have 
been had the dairymen hauled their own milk. For the most part 
motor trucks were used to collect the milk and haul it to the Omaha 
market. The charge for this hauling appears in Tables 1 and 2 under 
the item "Cash hauling of milk." The item " Motor-truck charge" 
was payment for the service of a motor truck owned by a dairyman 
who hauled his own milk. 
The cost of keeping a bull is expressed in dollars in Tables 1 and 2. 
In Table 5 the requirements for keeping a bull for one year are stated 
in units so that current prices for feed and labor may be applied. 
The comparative size and importance of the various cash charges 
are shown in the lower section of Tables 1 and 2. For convenience 
the requirements for producing 100 pounds of milk and also for keep- 
ing a cow one year are tabulated separately. 
Table 1. — Units required, except charge for mayiagement, for producing 100 pounds of 
milk in winter and in summer. 
Item. 
Winter. 
Summa- 
ry of two 
winters. 
Summer. 
Summa- 
ry of two 
summers. 
1917-18 
1919-20 
1918 
1920 
Feed: 
Purchased concentrates pounds. . 
Home-grown grains do 
7.0 
37.9 
0.9 
35.4 
4.4 
36.8 
1.4 
9.1 
0.9 
10.7 
1.2 
9.8 
Total concentrates 
44.9 
36.3 
41.2 
10.5 
11.6 
11.0 
Hauling and grinding grain 
$0. 007 
$0. 028 
$0. 016 
$0. 001 
$0. 007 
$0. 004 
Noncommercial roughage pounds. . 
Commercial carbohydrate hay . .do 
Commercial legume hay do 
37.3 
7.3 
29.1 
2.3 
4.8 
116.8 
22.3 
6.3 
66.7 
23.1 
1.8 
47.2 
1.7 
3.1 
24.9 
12.6 
2.4 
36.2 
73.7 
123.9 
95.3 
72.1 
29.7 
51 2 
Silage and other succulent roughage 
pounds . . 
Pasture 
104.9 
$0. 138 
11.0 
78.5 
$0. 069 
11.1 
93.6 
$0. 108 
11.1 
40. 2 
$0. 608 
.4 
18.0 
$0. 699 
.6 
29.3 
$0 653 
Bedding pounds. . 
.5 
Labor: 
Human hours. . 
Horse do 
2.1 
.03 
1.9 
.10 
2.0 
.06 
2.2 
.12 
1.6 
.03 
1.9 
.08 
Other costs: 
SO. 160 
.084 
.037 
.119 
.098 
.001 
.173 
$0. 222 
.111 
.024 
.153 
.238 
$0,186 
.096 
.032 
.134 
.158 
.001 
.181 
$0,185 
.097 
.043 
.138 
.102 
.005 
.167 
$0. 199 
.100 
.022 
.137 
.145 
.020 
.254 
$0 192 
Equipment charges and dairy supplies. 
Herd charges: Taxes, insurance, veteri- 
nary service, medicines, and disin- 
fectants 
.099 
.033 
.137 
Cost of keeping bull 
. 123 
012 
Cash hauling of milk 
.190 
.209 
Total other costs, except deprecia- 
.672 
.122 
.938 
.027 
.788 
.081 
.737 
.141 
.877 
.024 
.805 
084 
Total other costs 
$0. 794 
$0. 965 
$0. 869 
$0. 878 
$0. 901 
$0. 889 
The summaries of the unit requirements by seasons are printed in bold-face type. 
