The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-11-16
Feeds Are Costly and Scarce, So
Don't Waste Them on In
profitable Animals.
DISCARD ALL THE BoARDERs
Make Every Pound Of Grain Produce
Maximum Amount Of Miik-inten-
sive Use Of Scales and Rab-
cock Test Favored.

A IRE will not burn without fuel, an
engine refuses to run without oil. and
q dynamo balks sans power. The
farmer who tried to winter his horse
without feed evidently is not convers-
ant with these facts. Hence the horse
died. Similarly the dairyInnn who
tries to produce q regular and gener-
Gus flow Of MILL: from herd that Is
fed on hit-or-miss, hand-to-mouth
style Of. ration, lives to learn. There
are many improbable dairy cows in
the country to-day because farmers are
wasting labor and feed in attempting
to transform low-producing cows into
wage-earners ar because dairynen IRE
undertaking the productive and over
feeding the shirker animals In their
herds.
During the period Of the war. with
grains in limited supply and high
priced, the maximum OF care should
BE- exercised to prevent the waste of
any Of these ynluable materials. Under
existent conditions all farm roughages
should be utilized to the fullest extent
consistent with economic production.
However. It TX the height OF folly to
starve the deserving dairy cows In or,
der to save grain. Good cows must
be fed and fed well. Every effort
should be exer:ed to produce ms much
milk MS possible and still to maintain
the cows In the pink OF productive
condition. Feed the profitable cows
to capacity according to their produc-
tion. Gull the Improbable cows from
the herd Immediately. The manufac-
ture Of beef In the dairy barn does
not pay even in view of the high
prices which fnt cows now bring for
butcher disposition.
Know Whit Each Cow Yields.
Every dairymnn should know the
daily production Of each COW In his
herd. Such knowledge cnn be gained
only by the intensive use Of the scales
and the Bahcock test. This Is the
era Of the co%-testing association. as
such cooperative work Is effective in
the detection OF improbable cows as
well as in properly regulating the
amount Of feed which should be sup
piled to each cow in the herd. The
records OF one contrasting association
show that during two-year period the
cows which received 1900 pounds of
concentrates yielded IN average in
come above the cost Of feed of S33 an
animal, while the cows which were
fed between LOO and 1900 pounds of
concentrates yielded an income In ex-
cess Of feed costs Of S42. The animals
which were fed over 1900 pounds Of
concentrates earned net of S55
head over feed cost. These figures
illustrate the value Of better cows
and better systems Of feeding accord
ing to production.
The average of the records of 40
cow-testlng associations shows rapid
advance in income over cost of feed
us the quantities of grain fed in
creased. In this instance the cost of
concentrates foi the first lot of cows
WINS 81 apiece, while their income over
cost of feed was So. The concentrates
for the best lot Of cows cost S3S. Will"
their net earning capacity wns Sis. In
II word, 1t would require herd of -
cows similar to those in the FIRST GROUP
to produce as much income over cost
Of feed as was produced by the aver
age COW Of the Inst group.
A common fnult which exists among
many dairymen who are unfamiliar
with the value of contrasting work is
that they fall to feed grim to their
dry cows while many Of them do not
even feed balanced ration to the
best Of their cows. When grain is
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