a Agriculturist, December 6, 1924 
A Saving of $1,804 
What The “Kill a Kow” Plan Can Do 
F the members of a certain dairy 
improvement association in New 
iork State had butchered the poorest 
27% of their cows averaging 4,682 pounds 
of milk, they would have kept off of the 
market 290,000 pounds of milk, saved 
$4,524 for feed, saved the labor on 
72 cows and increased their net return 
$1,804.” This statement, based on 
absolutely carefully kept records, shows 
exactly why American Agriculturist is 
conducting its “Kill A Kow” campaign. 
We do not hesitate to make the statement 
that every cow producing less than 5,000 
pounds of milk is kept at a loss. 
The above statement is based on dis¬ 
posing of 27%. If this were all done at 
once it would work hardship, but just 
stop to think for a moment what it 
would mean for both the production and 
the marketing profits of the milk business 
if the dairymen who are now supplying 
the New York market would dispose of 
only 5% of their cows! This could be 
done by taking only those cows who are 
producing around 4,0G0 pounds of milk a 
year, every one of whom is kept at a 
big loss to her owner. 
Would Make a Scrawny Herd 
This proposition seems to be such 
plain common sense to us that we fail 
to see why any dairyman can long hesi¬ 
tate to join in the movement. We are 
glad to say that many are joining. We 
have enough already signed up on our 
“Kill A Kow” campaign to make a big 
showing if they were driven down the 
road in one great herd. But what a 
scrawny, disreputable lot they would be! 
That is, so far as milking characteristics 
are concerned, for every one of them 
whose owners have listed them to be killed 
between now and the first of March is a 
poor producer. Probably most of them 
would be fat, but they certainly would be 
a dairy from which every good dairyman 
would turn away in disgust. 
If there were added to these, however, 
all the others that should travel the same 
road to the butcher’s block, they would 
make an army of “boarders” that would 
take days to drive by the same spot, a 
great gerd of trouble makers responsible 
for the surplus and the gluts which 
result in constantly low prices to pro¬ 
ducers in the market, and responsible too 
for high labor and feed cost that keep 
down the profits in nearly every dairy. 
Some farmers have written us that 
they would be glad to dispose of such 
cows if they could get good beef prices 
for them. Of course, this is a problem, 
but we still maintain that they could be 
knocked in the head and buried in the 
back lot and still the owner would be 
ahead of the game financially. Surely 
they can be fatted and eaten or canned 
for home consumption 
Kill Only “Known” Boarders 
We have only one -word of caution to 
offer. We see no point in killing heifers, 
unless it is certain that those heifers will 
never make good producers. The future 
of the dairy business looks well for the 
man who is keeping good cows and taking 
good care of them. Heifers of good 
promise should not be butchered. We 
are only after those brutes who are eating 
their heads off to produce milk at a loss to 
flood the surplus market. 
Won’t you add at least one cow to our 
rapidly increasing herd that is stealing 
the dairymen’s profits? Read the letters 
on this page and sign the slip at the 
bottom. We know of no single act that 
you can do that would bring your busi¬ 
ness so much good. 
* * * 
Kill a Kow and the Surplus 
I N compliance to your request to 
“Kill A Kow,” I wish to extend my 
hearty support. 
We as dairymen realized several 
months ago, that we were producing milk 
at a loss because partly of competitive 
conditions and partly for the amount of 
surplus there appeared to be in all the 
markets of our large cities. 
In order that we could intelligently 
select the boarder cow from our dairy, we 
placed our herds in the Cow Test As¬ 
sociation of an adjoining county, and for 
the past few months have been watching 
results rather closely that we might eli¬ 
minate 25 (10%) of our dairy of our poorer 
or boarder cows from our herd. These 
cows we are feeding for beef and expect 
they will all disappear from our herds 
within 2 months. In picking out the 
poor cows we not only watch for the cow 
who is low in milk production but for 
the cow which is a fair milker but low 
in butter fat, as we believe that a higher 
butter fat test in the milk will bring a 
better and more stable demand. 
If we could reduce the number of 
cows producing milk for the New York 
market 10%, we likely could reduce the 
quantity of milk about 8%. This would 
do away or reduce greatly the actual 
surplus for which today we as producers 
receive only the surplus or butter prices. 
By excluding these boarder cows from 
our herds, we increase the average pro¬ 
duction of the dairy, thereby reducing 
slightly the cost of production, and we 
also reduce the surplus which will na¬ 
turally make a slight increase in the 
blended price we shall receive. 
Then shall we as farmers inspire our 
situation in a permanent and sub¬ 
stantial way, and shall all feel we have 
been a partner in this important under¬ 
taking .—H. J. H., Cortland Cou nty, N. Y. 
* * * 
Doing It For Years 
K ILL A KOW: I have been doing this 
since 1922 and even a little better. 
In 1923, I sold two for beef. This fall 
I will have another for beef for my 
family and one or tw r o others for the 
butcher. I would like to do better still 
and am in hopes of getting a good cow 
barn with modern improvements so that 
good cows will have no reason for not 
giving good results and any and all of 
those that will not give fair returns will 
go to the butcher’s. 
With a good modern barn, water 
buckets, good light and ventilation and 
good attendance from the caretaker, I 
feel that twelve good cows will do as well 
as eighteen kept in an easy-going way. 
—A. M. N., Oneida County, ,N Y. 
Kill a Kow! 
I will be glad to cooperate, providing at least one thousand 
other dairymen will do the same, in selling or killing FOR 
BEEF PURPOSES at least one of the poorest producers in 
my herd between now and March 1, 1925. 
Name. 
Address. 
Cut this out, sign it and send it to American Agriculturist, 
461 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. 
KOW-KARE ? 
and how docs it help pur Cows 
to higher yields 
One way to increase the milk 
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This is expensive and full of danger. 
The rich foods are costly. They put 
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instant this unnatural and expen¬ 
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