. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, June 2, 1917 THE FARM These Cows Give Four-Fold the Average Cow's Production. ~A cow that produced six times as rmien butter-fat in a month as the av- erage for all the dairy cows of Califor- nia won last month's honors in the State Dairy Cow Competition now be- ing conducted by the University of California College of Agriculture. She was "Imported President Doris of Lewiston," owned by the Palo Alto Stock Farm, of Pa'o Alto. How extravagantly and wastefully inefficient the odrinary dairy cow is, as compared wit
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, June 2, 1917 THE FARM These Cows Give Four-Fold the Average Cow's Production. ~A cow that produced six times as rmien butter-fat in a month as the av- erage for all the dairy cows of Califor- nia won last month's honors in the State Dairy Cow Competition now be- ing conducted by the University of California College of Agriculture. She was "Imported President Doris of Lewiston," owned by the Palo Alto Stock Farm, of Pa'o Alto. How extravagantly and wastefully inefficient the odrinary dairy cow is, as compared with what she ought to be. is shown by the fact that the 812 cows entered up to May 1, when the list closed, in this ten-months compe- tition, averaged last month a monthly production of pounds of butter-fat. or nearly four times the average for the dairy cows of California as a whole, which is fifteen pounds of butter-fat a month. It costs little more to feed a good cow than a poor cow. The University is aiding the farmers of the state to get rid of "boarder cows" which do not produce enough milk to pay for their feed by urging the dairymen to form co-opera- tive cow-testing associations, and by providing official testing for dairy cows for owners who wish to obtain Advance Registry records. With this year's shortage of feed, it is doubly important that every dairy- man should have in his herd only cows that are worth their keep. The average for the month for the cows in the University's competition was 1347 pounds of milk, or, at 16 cents a gallon, $25; or, with butter-fat at 40 cents a pound, $ plus ? for a thousand pounds of skim milk. The reason these cows gave about four times as much as the average California dairy cow is that they were bred right, fed right, and handled right. Most of them are pure-bred, of one or the other dairy breeds. How- ever, while it was a pure-bred Guern- sey that made the best record for the month—96 pounds of butter-fat
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