Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-13
The Testing of Dairy Herds.

we'll merits a careful reading not onl
by the citizens of our State who ar
directly interested in dairy products
but by all our citizens inasmuch
every one Of them is. to greater
less extent consumer of tines
products. AS the Farmer points GU
formed in Maine at Waterford in De
cember 1907 Soon after this or
ganization of the oxford count
dairymen came a similar organization
of the Kennebec county dairymen a
a meeting held in Winthrop for tina
purpose 1t has remained for tn
Farmer to place before its readers tn
first detailed statement of the result
accomplished by these association
which has yet been given to the pub
lie These facts have been compiled
from the records on file at the Office D
the Secretary of Agriculture, am
which next month"; are to be incorpo
rated into a bulletin of one hundre,
pages or more which has been pre-
pared by DR.. Leon S. Merrill, Stat
Dairy Inspector. The Farmer gives
the following summary Of the result:
shown by the records of the Water
ford and Norway Dairy Testing AS
ISOLATION
Lowest cost to produce butter fat
from a single COW among all the COWS
tested in this association for a full
years time was 1913 cents per pound
The highest cost for a single COW was
ST. cents; or in other words, TIL
cheapest production was So cents per
pound less than from the COW that
produced butter fat at greatest cost.
1.-THE lowest cost of producing but
ter fat from an entire herd for the
year was 17.2 cents per pound aud
highest for an entire herd was 81 Z
cents. The average cost of producing
a pound of fat from all the herds
tested in this association was 23.3
cents.
he ledSL dIllOuHL FeluTueu lOl ChS-i
dollar expended for keeping of COW
was S045, and the greatest amount re-
turned for each dollar expended for
keeping a single COW was $2.37. The
least returned for each dollar expend-
ed for keeping from a whole held was
5000 and the greatest amount was
$3.50. The average amount returned
for each dollar expended by all the
herds tested in the association was
$1.23"
OF special interest to the dariymen
of this section will be the figures given
by the Farmer showing the results at
tanned by the Kennebec Dairy Testing
Association. They are as follows:
Number of herds in this associa-
ton test, 80: number OF COWS in as
ISOLATION test. 355; number in test for
a full year, 1877; number of herds con-
tanning disseminating cows, IS; number
of loss-making cows in test for fun
year, So; number of loss making cows
sold during year. Is; number of loss
making COWS retained in herds, 90:
OF profit making cows sold
during year, 70; number of profit-mak
ing cows sold from herds that still re-
tanned cows making loss, 6: number
Of loss making cows retained in herds
from which profit making cows were
sold. a.
I'm the matter of cost of production
the dairymen of the Kennebec County
Association make a distinctly better
1airymen as will be seen by the fol-
lowing figures:
THE lowest cost to produce butter
fat by single COW in the Kennebec
association was II cents: the highest
cost to produce a pound of fat from
4 single COW was 44.9 cents The
lowest cost from whole herd was
1875 cents and the highest was 31.5
cents. The average cost to produce
A pound of fat from all the herds in
the kennebec association was 1873
cents.
The least amount returned from Il
single COW for each dollar expended
was SOL and the greatest amount
was $3.50. The least returned from
a whole herd for dollar expended
was s09S and the greatest from an
entire herd was 1921. The average
amount returned from all the herds
tested in the Kennebec association
for each dollar expended for keep
ing of cows was S167.
In each instance cited the fOrego-
ing figures are based on the records
included in full years test or so
long as the COWS were giving flill
Of course the cost of keeping is reck-
oned for the full year whether the
COWS were dry part of the time Or
not
in the oxford and Norway associa-
ton the lowest average cost of feed
per cow consumed by any herd dur
ing the full years test was S34.51:
the highest average cost of feed con-
sumed by any herd was $71.44, and
the average cost of feed consumed by
all the herds was 1929.
I'm the Kennebec county association
the lowest average cost of feed per
cow consumed by any herd was
1922 and the highest was S65.59.
The average cost of feed per COW for
al the herds was $46.43."
The best COW tested in the Kennebec
association showed the following fine