The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-03-09
CAT I'll
HERDS REPORT
Is of Interest to Those Who Are
Interested in Forming Az
ricuIturaI Bureau.
g. y. DuddeEar, secretary of the

4 (By G.. w. Dudd eFar, secretary OF the
Board of Trade,
Yesterday we referred to Mr. Nat
g. Frames report wherein he spoke
1 OF the improvements of live stock, dis
cussing particularly dairy cattle, and
I'm this connection an extract from
the report Of John Barren. the, county
agent Of Broome COUNT ". Z s, might
i5be particularly Interesting TO those
with herds Of dairy cattle. Mr. Bar
Isronss report was publ ished early in
1912. and In part reads as follows:
Scattered here ana there were
farmers W hose larry herds made an
average production per COW in.
Broom 8 county OF S 100 D. a COW, or bet
/ ter. whereas the average gross pro-.
Eduction per COW in Broome county,
n. Y, is about 42 These men who
are doing SO much better than the.
average used a few brains
with heir farm work. They have
studied their business They have
eliminated the board ers' from the
dairy herds They grow a quantity
of feed on the arm and are much
less dependen than the average man
upon the good graces, OF the feed
dealer.
In their eff forts TO impress upon
the farmer the Importance Of keep
Ing records OF ind ividual cowssit has
kept did not pay for their keeping
Another third about balanced the
account, and the remaindera arc prof
table. This condI ion vii never be-
changed until the individual rather
than the herd LIS made the unit
Average result are not Important
As a result OF our agitat ton al few
farmers are now keeping records and
"a. few COW testing associations are Ont
the road toward sorganizatio on. A COW
testing association is means of
keeping the records OF ind iyiduall
cows By co-operati ion, a man hired
by the members Of the ascot tion toll
do the work for them Generally It'll
cost about 81 0O per COW per year
for the record A record thus kept
Us likelyssto be full Ter and more ac-I
scuTate than If kept by t1esindiYidual,I
and furthermore the Individual sisl
likely to neglect such work Somei
records from an association which
has been at work for ii year or more
in Del phi, y Delaware county, are in-
teresting
u 81 the year IN wi Itch records were
kept. SOL cows in eighteen da1riesl
43Sk4aFL0 Observation-Disclosures
les, 2I1,945 pounds more mile than
E50 2scoWs4in. the same eighteen dair-
ies mad the year before, when rec
E3ords We're not kept. AT tho same
price this was an Increase In the ms
come OF 81 Is 1858 8: It is true that
the mere keeping of records will.
increase thesoutputSo Of mi liz. This ex-
ira prof was III the main secured at
q cash layout of So 01, the cost OF
keaping the records. Several dairies3
made a proiit St S 81 or more per,
Cow. after all labor and feed bills.
were paid; and tier interest and de-
ipreciation had been met Several
iffecefved 81 or less per cow. One,
Edairygof twenty cows which was the
hest, made an aNerage proft above
lFali charges az 4 ia s. pers COW. The
poorest made! a prof of 2 IS per
lcok III happens that this is IN the
ratio Of 8 to- at is, IL requires
ias6. Of the cows from thespoor
ldAifY To NAL u al much proht alb ono
LOT the yeIag &c cows from the good
ldaary the "a aI who had The
isE6nfi daifs al not reached the ton
agfin had III a best cow Ssocfa
al4lon mad s9i