Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-02-03
More MIX From Fewer Cows.

slogan OF the Dairy Industry Bureau OF
the United States Department of Aericul-
ture. Why clutter up the farm with COW
that supplies 4 500 pounds of milk year
when you might have one with 40 per
cent greater productionf
And to impress you with what that in
creased production would mean it Is ex-
planned that II each COW in the dairy herds
of the United States increased her pro-
duction by so little as lU0 pounds year
not 5000 pounds. mind you, but only
thirtieth Of that-an additional 100000
people each year for the next 40 years
could be supplied with as much milk as is
now used per capita without increasing
the number OF cows in the herds,
That is to say, that the dairy herds which
now number about 22, 000, 900 cows could
supply milk for 100000 more people
by 1865 if the animals were bred and
graded up to standards that are compare
lively easy Of attainment.
The average COW, as has been stated,
gives $500 pounds Of milk year. while
the average COW in dairy herd improve
ment associations gives $500 pounds.
But of the 22.O0O.000 mixers included
in the nations dairy herds less than per
cent, or only about 100000. are owned
by members of dairy herd improvement
associations and are tested each month
for milk and butter fat production, enabling
the owners to eliminate Improbable cows
from the herds. In 1919, il is stated, on
the basis of comparative records, 100000
of the cows produced as much milk as
5S4 900 average cows and returned as
much profit over cost of feed as $4,000
average cows.
This increased production has been
brought about by culling, feeding and
breeding" says DR.. C. W. Larson. the Gov
eminent expert. land there is no practical
reason why all the cows in the country
should not be brought to this high aver
age of production"
In 1920, the average annual production
of the cows in dairy herd improvement
associations was about 5000 pounds Of
milk. BY last year this production had
been brought up to $500 pounds, or an
average annual increase Of more than
200 pounds. In view Of that record it is
not unreasonable to insist that the pro-
duction of all the dairy cows In the coun-
try could be increased by at least 100
pounds annually.
What can be Gone by breeding alone is
shown by the results Of experiments in
grading up a dairy herd by the use Of
purebred sires at Ardmore Experimental
Station in South Dakota. The original herd
of native cows had an average annual
production of ZOE pounds of butter fat
and an average lactation period Of 23S
days. Their daughters, sired by a pure
bred Holstein bull. produced on the aver
age 246 pounds Of butter fat,in lactation
period Of 272 days. and their grandaueh-
tiers have advanced their marks to SIS
pounds Of butter fat in 326 days Of lacta-
ton.
| And, speaking of butter, Dr.. Larson's
bureau tells the world that creamery but
ter is rapidly displacine farm butter. From
1904 to 1870 creamery butter production
| increased so per cent, and in the last six
years there has been another so per cent
increase. Now creameries production ap-
proximates one and half billion pounds,
as compared with third Of that annual
production in farm butter. DR.. Larson pre-
diets, however. that there will not be as
great decrease in farm manufacture with
the corresponding increase in creamery
manufacture during the next five years as
has occurred during the past five years.
The creamery business in the sections
close to the large urban centers of the
country is rapidly disappearing, he says.
The demand for fluid milk and cream is
such as to require practically the entire
output of the diaries in those sections.
The Northeastern States. for example,
which include the New England States,
New York, Pennsylvania. New Jersey.
Maryland and Delaware. produced more
than 26 per cent of the total creamery
butter made in the United States iD 1904,
but last year their production had dropped
to slightly more than 2.6 per cent.
In 1904 three States-Minnesota Wis
consin and Iowa-produced AZ per cent Of
all the creamery butter made in the coun-
try. Sixteen years later they had dropped
to 35 per cent Of the total national pro-
duction. but last year they were back again
TO the percentage of about two decades
ago.
To Offset the decrease in creamery butter
production in the Northeastern States
there has been increased production in the
Southern. Western and Central States
From 1904 to 1925 the Southern States
showed an increase from about two-tenths
of per cent of all the creamery butter
made in this country TO So per cent OF
the total amount Ten Western States in
in same period increased their production
from 9.5 per cent to Is per cent. Illinois.
Indiana. Ohio and Michigan increased their
production from IL to 10 per cent OF the
c0untry's total, while Kansas, Nebraska.
Missouri and North and South Dakota
made the Greatest increase in proportion
of butter manufactured-frOm 10 per cent
in 1904 to 10 per cent in 1925.
But hearken TO what Minnesota does.
That State now produces three and one
half times as much butter as all the IS
Southern States, for all the increase they
have shown in recent years. Minnesota
now produces twice as much butter as the
Northeastern States produced 20 years
ago and over seven times as much as they
now produce. Minnesota creamery pro-
duction doubled from 1904 TO 1920 and