Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-01-16
did not. 1t cost a half cent more

per quart to produce milk when
hay was used as the sole rough
age than it did when both hay
and silage were fed. Every Or
leans county farm carrying eight
or more cows should have a silO.
b. The scarcity and high price of
commercial feeds during the past
winter should cause every dairy
man to consider how much of the
grain which he uses he can raise
on his own farm. Cooperative
purchasing of grain on the low
market is a big factor in re-
ducing costs when from SIS to $12
per ton can be saved as has been
the case during this winter as
we'll as during the winter 1916
II.
c. The value of land used for
pasture causes the cost of food
to fuctuate. High-priced land
used for pasture is seldom a pay
ing proposition when average
cows are pastured thereon.
Labor-Some dairymen have con-
sidered that the value of the calf
and manure might be equivalent
to the outlay made for the labor
involved in caring for the herd.
Such an assumption does not
hold today. Inconvenient barns,
small herds, excessive care, and
long hauls are all factors causing
high labor cost.
Plant-1nterest, insurance, re-
pairs and depreciation on that
part of the building used for the
maintenance of the milking herd
are all costs properly chargeable
against the herd.
Equipment-This item includes
such articles as pals, strainers,
forks, and milking machine.
Bedding-The beddingwas charg-
ed at the price which was paid
for it.
Miscellaneous Charges - Other
small items which do not neces-
sarily apply to every farm are as
follows:
a. Insurance on cows.
b. Veterinarians fees, medicines,
disinfectants.
C. Feed grinding.
d. Ice.
e. Cow test association and dues.
f. Salt, stock foods.
6. Taxes on cows.
h. Water and light if purchased.
CREDITS
The following items have been
eemed proper credits:
Manure-This was figured at the
rate of about a ton per month
per cow for the time she was in
the barn.
Calf-Figured on the grade basis
oil
Hides and old feed bags.
oduction.-These PIP herds to-
falling 1850 cows averaged PATS
quarts or 1923 pounds per cow
There seems reason to believe
that the average milk yield OBJ
tanned in this survey is nearly,
if not quite, a full 1000 pounds
higher than that which would &C
curately represent the average
production of the COWS Of the
state as a whole.
Summary of milk production, May
1916 to May 1, 1917, on PIP Yer
lont farms located in IL counties.
AS nearly as it is possible to esti-
late the net cost of producing milk
as increased from $11186 to $154.O9
r about 38 per cent. The cost items
re distributed as follows.
Z per cent of cost for feed.
3 per cent of cost for labor.
1 per cent of cost for overhead ex-
penseS.
3 per cent of cost for managerial
ability and business risks.
The figures gathered in this survey
$50 showed the producing cow to
2 much less economical as a produc-
than the high-producing animal.
or cows producing under 1900
1arts per year from May 1, 1916 to
lay 1, 1917, it cost 5.78c to produce
ne quart of milk, whereas the cows
reducing over 300 quarts year,
le cost per quart at the farm was
sduced to Ste. In other words, it
as costing the dairyman with poor
,ws 92c more per hundred pounds to
reduce milk than it was the dairy
AN with good cows. Good cows pay.
GIG to May 1, 1917 on PIP Vermont farms To-
L COW.
PER COW