. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 390 Missouri Agricultural Report. BETTER THINGS FOR THE DAIRYMAN. (By Prof. W. J. Fraser, Illinois Agricultural College.) MULTITUDE OF WORTHLESS COWS MUST GO TO THE BUTCHER— HOW TO SECURE THE GOOD ONES THAT MAKE LARGE RETURNS. The actual relation of the cow and the herd to the real profits derived from dairy farming is little realized by the people depend- ing upon this occupation for a living. There is no line of farming where well-directed effort will pay so large a prof
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 390 Missouri Agricultural Report. BETTER THINGS FOR THE DAIRYMAN. (By Prof. W. J. Fraser, Illinois Agricultural College.) MULTITUDE OF WORTHLESS COWS MUST GO TO THE BUTCHER— HOW TO SECURE THE GOOD ONES THAT MAKE LARGE RETURNS. The actual relation of the cow and the herd to the real profits derived from dairy farming is little realized by the people depend- ing upon this occupation for a living. There is no line of farming where well-directed effort will pay so large a profit. Remember I say well-directed effort, for the profits derived from dairy farm- ing depend almost entirely upon the good judgment and common sense used. The profits on the average dairy farm today can easily be doubled. THE COW IS THE MARKET. A dairyman considers his market the place where he disposes of his milk, cream or butter, and in one sense this is true, but the place he markets the products of his farm as the grain, hay and silage is the dairy cow. The efficiency of the cow consuming these must therefore bear a vital relation to the dairyman's profits. If in a town having two grain elevators, one paid one-half cent bushel more for grain than the other, no farmer would be foolish enough to sell his grain at the one paying the lower price. Yet draiymen will persist in keeping cows year after year that are paying them only twenty-five cents a bushel for grain, while others in the same herd, or that can easily be obtained at a reasonable price, will pay fifty cents a bushel, or even more, for the grain they consume. The difference in price which individual cows are paying for their grain is not so apparent as the difference at the elevators, but it is none the less actual and affects the pocket book just as surely in the *£*£;/:??? Wr. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - col
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