. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Improvement of Missouri Herds, 367 Question: How much more profitable are the best ten cows yielding 336 pounds of butter fat per cow per year than the ten poorest yielding only 144 pounds of butter fat per cow per year? About $30,000,000 worth of dairy products are annually pro- duced in the State (Illinois). The amount can easily be doubled with the same number of cows if the dairymen will give their business the attention it deserves. The net profit from the cows of Mis
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Improvement of Missouri Herds, 367 Question: How much more profitable are the best ten cows yielding 336 pounds of butter fat per cow per year than the ten poorest yielding only 144 pounds of butter fat per cow per year? About $30,000,000 worth of dairy products are annually pro- duced in the State (Illinois). The amount can easily be doubled with the same number of cows if the dairymen will give their business the attention it deserves. The net profit from the cows of Missouri could easily be doubled in the next ten years. MEASURING THE COW'S VALUE. Testing Daily Not Necessary—Although it would be a little more accurate to weigh the cow's milk every morning and every night throughout the year and test it as often as once a week, such a procedure is too expensive to be of practical value on the farm. If the cow's milk be weighed and sampled for three days about the middle of each month, and the milk given by the cow for that month be estimated as ten times the quantity given in these three days, and then the test obtained from the composite sample of three days' accumulation be accepted as the test for the month, the results at the end of the year will be about 96 per cent, perfect. That is as close as the farmer need work. Composite Samples—Pint Mason fruit jars are excellent for preserving these composite samples. Prepare one jar for each cow to be tested, label each jar with the number of the cow, then add to each jar a corrosive sublimate tablet, such as are obtainable from creamery supply houses. The poison in these tablets kills all bac-. Sprlng balance for weighing mllli. (Courtesy Blanlte & Hauk, St. Louis.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mis
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