. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . one of the leading American of six states, Wisconsin, New York, Iowa, Minnesota,Illinois and Texas, has more than a million dairy cows, andfour other states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alichigan and Mis-souri, have more than three-quarters of a million ten states supply fifty-three per cent, of all our dairycattle. The following chart shows the percentage of all the farmdairy cows of the United States found in each of theseten leading dairy states: Wisconsin New York Iowa Minnesota Illinois Texas 5
. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . one of the leading American of six states, Wisconsin, New York, Iowa, Minnesota,Illinois and Texas, has more than a million dairy cows, andfour other states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alichigan and Mis-souri, have more than three-quarters of a million ten states supply fifty-three per cent, of all our dairycattle. The following chart shows the percentage of all the farmdairy cows of the United States found in each of theseten leading dairy states: Wisconsin New York Iowa Minnesota Illinois Texas Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Missouri 272 CATTLE 273 Profitable and unprofitable cows.—Whether a dairy-herd yields a profit or a loss depends first of all on the milkand butter-fat producing capacities of the indiv^idual cows. Apoor cow may require as much feed as a good one, and de-mands as much labor and attention. It has been estimated that one-third of the dairy cowsin the United States are kept at an actual loss. Twice. A cliampiuu Hereford. every day, therefore, there are milked some seven millioncows, mere boarders, that not only return no profit, butuse up the profit from good covers. How many cows of thiskind are kept on your farm? Profit differences in herds.—It is estimated that theskim-milk, calf and manure from a dairy cow are worththe cost of caring for her. This leaves the milk to bal-ance against the value of the feed. The difference 274 AGRICULTURE between the best and the poorest cow in almost any herdis surprising. This difiference is well shown in the fol-lowing record of fifteen cows for one year in an Illinoisherd: No. Lb. Lb. Per cent. cow milk fat fat Profit Loss 1 1204 49 $ 2 1236 50 3 2944 88 4 2597 91 5 2548 98 6 24/5 99 7 2569 105 8 3164 117 9 2829 123 10 3380 149 11 4582 158 $ 12 4146 174 13 4103 177
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