Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-02
ANOTHER PATRIOTIC
 FOOD EXHIBIT PLANNED
This Tina ls Is to Be Held in New
 Londun.

WI %r>Ilfsat hsstNsE ES This Tina lt Is so Be Held in New
 London.
 The women of the city of New Lon don are working most enthusiastically Ion a two day food exhibit, similar to 1 the one held in Norwich the last week I in January
 The dates of the food exhibit and the place for holding 1t will be an- nounced through the press at an early iote The exhibits will be composed of many of the most palatable conserva- l ton dishes, including sugarless des-
 serts. Liberty breads and cakes of all l kinds, meat substitute dishes, dishes | using all kinds of fat. There will be an interesting display of inexpensive luncheons or suppers prepared by | classes in the department of home economics of the Connecticut Womans' i College. The classes of the Vocational ! School Tn New London will prepare some 100 caloric portions. box lunch
 cons, and some special liberty breads.
 The exhibit will be open afternoon
 and evening and at each session there will be. a talk or demonstration on
 some food subject. Miss Sprague of Hartford, Miss Thompson, instructor
 
 College for Women. Miss Sarah Pack ard, instructor of home economies at i Vocational School and Miss N. J. Campbell, home demonstration agent I of the farm bureau will be the speak .pers. Everybody is welcome and there
 is no charge. There will be a sale of
 home made conservation dishes on the last day.
 Dairy Cows Pay.
 It is interesting to both the assist Eant county agent and the different dairymen, on whose farms he pays a , monthly visit, for the purpose of de- termining costs of milk production , and to assist in reducing that cost by showing up the unproftable cows and {, properly balancing economical rations, so watch the benefits accruing from these visits, It has been found iii ev-
 cry instance where the dairyman has } cooperated that q marked improve n1ent has been made in the herd. A I statement issued Friday at the farm
 bureau office says:
 At the end of the year we hope to
 have some interesting statistics and Information to give out regarding the
 results of these visits to the seven [. farmers cooperating. But just to H. lustrate what can be and is being 3 done by the contemplating farmers, who
 arc willing to see that modern meth
 ods of business applied to the farm ] are what pays him profit todaylI s will take the herd of one of the CO., s operators and show how his cost of : milk production has decreased in the e lost nine rnonths-in spite of the fact ; that the prices of feed and labor have t decidedly increased.
 e |, Tn April 1917 he was milking IS cows
 (no consideration. taken of dry cows 7. or young stock). These cows pro- E duced an average of BIO pounds of ( milk at a cost of 7.Sc per quart. And e here I might add that in determining 2 the cost of production-various items s must be taken into account as de- . crease in value of cows interest on in |. vestment. feed, including hay and sil-
 age as well as grain, bedding. labor il sire service and use of building ani V equipment. The cows must also bs if credited with manure calves ani n hides. increase in cows and feed bag:
 thereby giving us fairly accurate If idea of just how much our COWS art e swelling our bank account, or nov d much they are eating into it. He wa! ,s disposing of his product in the form n of butter Whcih when worked out le showed he was receiving actually B. le per -cent per quart for his milk. II ,e other words he was maintaining hi herd at a loss of S3.27 per COW. ne f. month altogether very expensiv, " proposition. s Later on ten unprcfitabie cows wer is disposed of and five others: profitabl "a ones purchased, the grain ratiol . changed and the product disposed o in the form, of milk at retail instea, .s of as butter. In January 1918 de ,e spite the fact that the cows wer ,e compelled to walk a considerable dis If tance for water and as mentione I'd before the prices of grain had in V cree sed considerable the cost of pro ,d dIicticn had decreased to 69 per cant le per. duart. Seventeen cows were be 7t ing Tui17Sed at an average productio to of sec pounds of milk thereby =ivip
 him ?. pro7t of s4s4 per COW DC at month Putting the improvemen
 which is. being made in this herd. st Anrii, 1e17, number cows mixed IS
 average per COW, BIO pounds. cost pc Ia COW 125: cost per quart 73c; prof
 600; loss s.27.
 Ianuarv, 1918, number cows mike m i IT average. per COW 5e0 pounds: cos
 Der GOV. 1743: cost per quart 6.s .d profit 4.st; loss noD.
 ay In April 1917. IS. COWS produced 558 70 polsn;5g Q. rni'k Tt. a cost of s2n2.5n I January 1918, 10 cows would hay ,a produced the same amount of milk g af 2 cost of57.s cents Ter quart while tn re 10 cows would have. produced the sam " at 6.7 cents The cost of feed for Jan ry uary is 55 per cent greater than thf 2. for April but, the profit has increa SC fa nearly 200 per cent If one must lSee nj cows why not cows like those kept
 January at profit of s9S7.S6 irstea ed of a loss of S70s? The owner of tn re herd has seen the folly of continuir ds to feed and care for cows which prf ~ duce at a. loss; yet many a farmer COT nd tinues to do just tdhat thing. losing ( af his poor COWS any profit he may nal l- on his good ones and thls same ral
 of profit in the dairy business.