The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-03-09

HERDS REPORT
us of Interestt to Those WtlO Are.
Interested in Forming Ag-
ricultural Bureau.
S(By G. w. Dudderar, secretary OF the
Board Of Trade.
yesterday we referred to Mr. Nat
n. Frames report wherein he spoke
OF the improvementof OF live stock, dis
cussing particularly dairy cattle, and
in this connection an extract from
the report of . Ohm Barren, the county
agent of Broone county. N. az i. mi ght
be particularly interesting to those
with herds OF dairy cattle. MIR Bar
ron's report was published early in
1912, and in part reads as follows:
Scattered here an1 there were
farmers whose dairy herds made an
average production per COW in
| Broome county Of 5 10 0 a COW, or bet
ter, whereas the average gross pro
duction per COW In Broome county,
n. !, is about 2. These men who
are doing so much better than the
average used a few brains
with their farm work. They have
studied their business They have
eliminated the .boarders from the
dairy herds. They grow Quantity
feed on the farm and are much
less dependent than the average man
upon the good graces of the feed
dealer
In their efforts to impress upon
the farmer the Importance OF keep
ing records OF Individual cows It has
been found that one-third of the COWS
kept did not pay for. their Keeping.
Another third about balanced the
account, and the remainder are prof
table. This condition will never be
changed until the Individual rather
than the herd is made the unit.
Average results are not important.
AS result OF our a citation a few
farmers are now keeping records and
a few cow testing associations are on
the road toward organization Al COW
testing association is5 a E means Of
keeping the records OF individual
cows by cooperation, a man hired
by the memb berss of the association to
do the work for them Genera1ly it
cost dUUu 80 ~ 10y
for the record accord thus kept
is likely. to be fuller and more ac-
curate than il kept by the individual.
and furthermore the individual is
likely to neglect such work. Some
records from an sOciation which
has been at work for year or more
IN Delphi, Delaware county, are in
teresting:
5S.. From April II !, i go. to March ! !,
1911, the year in which records were
kept, so cows in eighteen dairies
made and delivered to the creamer-
les, 27O.945 pound more mile than
5O2 cows in the amefeighteen dair-
les made the year before. when rec
ords were not kept. the same
price this was an increase IN the in
the mere keeping OF records will
increaseEthe output OF milk. This ex-
! ira profit was In the main secured at
d a cash layout Of $50 the cost OF
keeping he records. Several dairies
made profit Of s25 or more per
COW, after all labor and feed bills
were paid, and after int terest and de-
spreclation had been met. Several
received S 10 or less per COW. One
dairy OF twenty cows which was the
best, made an average profit above
all charges Of $41.33 per COW. The
poorest made a profit OF S2.78 per
cox It happens that this Is In the
ratio Of 16 to u. That is. it requires
B16 or the average COWS from the poor
dairy to make as much prof t as one
4 Of the average i cows from the good
dairy. But the man who had the
good dairy had not#reached the top.
He had the best COW In the associa-i
ston. She mad Ia netsprof1t Of 81 1918
but his average was only S 41.3a. One
dairy OF 5thirty six COWS made u not
profit of $S47.74 The twent ty-hveE
best cows IN this dairy made profit
of s81 5 orswithfn about S 8 o as much
as the thirty-six cows Forty seven
cows in another. dairy made a profit
of So O6. .61 The ten best cows IN
that dairy made a profit. Of $1Sl.O'7.
In a third dairy thirty ave cows made
a profit OF 50 so.4 s. The twelve best
COWS in the dairy made a profit of
S$125.24.s . rs
The stud y5 Of the ndividual COW
in our case Is a: fundamental study.
Farms are equipped for a Certain
number Of cows. and the idea Is that
that number must be maintaine Mt
all hazards. Tho getting rid Of the
Sboarderss will put the dairy On 5 a
profit making basi q. hen Il rotation
can be fol flowed which Will furnlsh&a
good rationsf for the cattle withou the
necessity for buying SO much as is
now the case. The farmer then can
also devote some time to 9th Ter en-
terpriseE which make "a pro at, grow
ing potatoes or hay for sale. nc the
same time having a more pro ohtab1e5
though a smaller dairy .'s
MT. FORD SINIPRoVING
Mrs. Charles l. Ford has returned
from Battle Creek, Mich. where she
her husband, who Isl