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BULLETIN 1069, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
increased production is ao-companied by increased income over cost 
of teed regardless of breed, age. weight, date of freshening, or geo- 
graphical location. 
PRICES AND PROFITS. 
'Several tabulations were made to determine, if possible, whether 
cows which were large producers of milk and butterfat are rela- 
tively more profitable or relatively less profitable when prices are 
high than when they are low. The results of such tabulations have 
so far been inconclusive, and for that reason the figures have been 
omitted. In every case of those studied, however, the low producers 
had a high feed cost per unit of production, low returns for SI ex- 
pended for feed, and small income over cost of feed. In every case 
the high producers had a low feed cost per unit of production, large 
returns for ?1 expended for feed, and a high income over cost of 
feed. 
RELATION OF MILK PRODUCTION TO INCOME. 
MILK PRODUCTION AXD INCOME OVER COST OF FEED. 
Table 6 shows the relation of milk production to income over cost 
of feed in association- where the product was sold as whole milk. 
The results are much the same as those obtained from associations 
where the income was from the sale of butterfat. 
Table 6. — Relation of milk production to income over cost of feed when product 
was sold as whole niilk; years 191-5 to 1920, inclusive — Front 3.220 yearly 
records. 
Group No. 1 
Xumber 
of 
records. 
Milk production . 
Range. Average. 
Average 
price of 
milk 
per 100 
pounds. 
Average 
income 
over 
cost of 
feed. 
1 
2 
3 
16 
223 
724 
927 
671 
371 
1^1 
58 
34 
7 
\\ 
1 
1 
1 
Pounds. 
751- 2.250 
2.251- 3.750 
3. 751- 5. 250 
5.251- 6.750 
6.751- \250 
8,251- 9.750 
9.751-11,250 
11.251-12.750 
12.751-14.250 
14.251-15.750 
15.751-17.250 
17.251-17.750 
17. 751- is. 2.50 
18 751-19.250 
19,751-2 25 
Pounds. 
1.662 
3.250 
4.605 
5. 970 
7.429 
8,918 
10. 354 
11.881 
13. 2.50 
15.fH2 
16.076 
17.3^7 
IS. 207 
18,894 
20. 16"* 
-?2. 56 
2. .53 
2.53 
2.46 
2.40 
2.42 
2.42 
2.4.' 
2.51 
2. 2" 
2.24 
.. - 
2.14 
2 31 
1.93 
$3.47 
32,25 
59. 58 
4 
82.96 
105 36 
6 
131. 93 
156. 51 
1M.29 
9 
2\\ 19 
io : 
224 1* 
u 
219. .50 
12 
223. 6* 
13. . . 
21 o 99 
14 
15.. . 
2S6.0& 
:! 
3. 220 
A verage 
6, 575 
Q2. 11 
1 The records were sorted on the basis of milk production, allowing a difference of 1,500 pounds between 
group center?. 
