Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-02
MORE DAIRY COWS
 NEEDED FUR STATE
"A Good Milk Cow For Every Farm in Arkansas" Is New Slogan
 of Workers.

in Arkansas" Is New Slogan
 of Workers.
 By w. Fl. Woodley, Dairy Specialist,
 Extension Division, University of
 Arkansas.
 "A good milk COW for every farm family in Arkansas, is the slogan re- gently adopted by the Extension work CTS with the University of Arkansas. With 10000 Arkansas farmers now without COW and many with cows "ln name only, it can be readily seen that much good work can be done along this line, which will mean great deal not only for the econom- ic betterment of the state but also for it's general welfare
 More dairy COWS are essential to Arkansas prosperity, however, since food is so important at the present time and feed so expensive only high producing animals should be kept The income from the individual milk COW advances at a remarkable rate as milk production increases, and poor producers should be weeded from the dairy herd
 The Best Cows Give Greatest
 Net Returns. =.
 Tabulations made by 5,5S7 COW test ing associations in the United States show that for a period of four years as the butter fat production increases from 150 pounds to 300 pounds per COW, the income; over the cost of fend advanced from $2O to $6O, in other words, as production doubled income over feed cost advanced three times When the butter fat production in creased from 150 pounds to 45o pounds; that is, treblhd*the income over cost of feed advanced from S2l to $100, or almost five times as much.
 At this rate of increase, when only cost of feed is considered, one COW fat year would show as much in- come over cost of fead as 20 COWS whose average production was 100 pounds.
 Good Cows Give Better Fat For Each
 Pound of Feed.
 A study of these records shows tha> the cost of roughage was about the same for all the COWS, regardless of production. The cost of grain was considerably higher for the more pro- ductive COWS than for the low produc- CTS, but it was much lower for each pound of butter fat produced. The increasedxineome, however, though it should be credited in part to better feeding, was evidently due more largely to better COWS.
 High Priced Land Make Poor Cows
 .: UnprofitabIe.
 A good COW costs considers ble money nowadays and with land values rising and the, price of feed soaring, nc other kind is profitable ''The higher the price of food, the more expensive it is to keep a poor COW. The higher the price of human food, the more necessary it is to keep a good cow f 70 N"'s.}4 ~ = Not Number, But Kind of Cows De-
 terfnine Income.
 Most farmers havea about all the COWS they have feehotpr, but very few know whether 1hsasfeed is bring ing them the t'WUduction pos sible, and since daiFSdeproducts arc scarce the great problsh is how to obtain large production&ith the most economic use of feed Whfeh is produc- ed on the farm. Must Establish "a Standard ,of
 Production.
 Every owner of COWS should es- tablish definite standard of pre- duction and every COW that does not measure. up to these requirements should be disposed of, and whether q COW should be sold or kept must de- pend, ordinarily, on production as de- termined by using a Babcock test for butter fat, and milk scale. Must Have Milk and Butter For Health of Family.
 F. The best authorities tell us that milk is the natural and proper food for every, member of the family and planning a quart a day for each child and pint for%each adult of the household served alone or cooked iii the various foods will go far toward keeping the roses in the cheeks of the younger members and the elastic ity of strength and vigor in the step of the older members of the family. Much has been said and written about Substitutes for butter fat, but there can be no substitute as no oth- CT animal or vegetable fat contains the mysterious health-givin element