White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-04-13
WHAT IS YOUR MARKET,

wei ask themselves this question for
the hay raised and fed to dairy cows
u is seldom realized until one has
neen in testing association for i
year or two just how much infor-
nation may gather from a cow test
ing association report.
The above question was asked Of
dairy farmer in Pacific county and
then the dairy specialist and county
agent proceeded to find the answer.
Two >ows were selected, each pro-
ouc:ng about the same amount If
milk, Lottie producing 4O.4 lbs ner
Gay and Betty 40.6 lbs. per dsu ~
January, and Lottie producing 20 lbs.
Per day in September and Betty l72
IDS. Ihe butter fat production for eacn
COW. was figured and it. was foi,rd
mat Lottie had produced 343.7 lbs
OF tat TOR the year and Betty 24o4
IDS Inc iced costs were reported the
same Tor both cows and totaled
$500; S24.30 for hay, "a. so for Grain
$3.50 tor roots and $500 for pasture,
incidentally the feed cost is approx;-
inately one-half the total cost Of
Keeping a COW and on this basis the
cost per elb. of butter fat for Lottie
was 43A cents and for Betty 62H
fhe income for both cows was fig
ured at so cents Per lb. butter fat
produced, giving Lottie an income of
$l74.85 and Betty $1,000. In figur.
ing the returns ON hay consumed by
these two cows 1870 was taken az the
ieed cost, 32ae as labor cost and
!, LoM as over head which includes,
barn costs, depreciation, interest on
value Of COW, etc.
taxing the total 'cose of feed. or
S74.60, as. $50 the labor over head
were figured as $66.27 to this was
ADDED the cost of grain, roots and
PASTURE making total of $1I6.57 th;s
then was subtracted from the income
from each COW leaving Ss5.28 for
Lottie and $3.63 for Betty this repre-
sents the return on 200 lbs. Of hav
consumed by each cow. Figuring this
back to the ton basis Lotto returned
$4O.e6 per ton forSthe hay which she
consumed and Betty $40 ton.
~ ~ we were marketing any commo-
d'ty thru marketing organization we
would want to know just what we
were getting from and without cues
ton We would market thru the agency
returning to us the largest net return.
especially when there was such wide
variation Figures such as given above
can not be secured without some kind
OF careful record being kept and the
cow testing association, whereby fine
farmer can secure these records at a
cost OF but $l.50 FER COW plus a little
work on his part, is very economical
method of gathering this information.
Are you going to continue market
ing part of your hay at 500 when
1t is possible thru constructive pro-
gram to secure from $50 to even $50
per ton.
Get in touch with your county agent
and get all the information you can
on cow testing association work.
81 X *
Practically every community of the
equity is being worked on the COW
testing association sign-up, through
one plan or another, The plan varies,
considerably from community to COM
nunity, due to size of the district or
the location Of leaders for the work.
At White Bluffs and Hanford, H.
3. Foltz, the manager of the Cream
Station, is securing sign-ups at this
time and this work will be followed
by dairy meeting in the community
as socn as time is available
The goal that we have set is one
hundred herd owners testing. with
1000 cows being tested.
Again we urge that every dairy
man become as familiar as possible
with plans for testing so as to take.
up as little time as possible on the
part of the person securing the sign
ups.