MONEY VALUE OF BULL.
Practically every dairy herd conU.ms a few poor cows that are leaning on the better ones for support.
It is well known thatt the cost of labour, feed, and overhead are in creased only to a slight degree in making milk from 70001b cows com pared t 0 the 4,000 or 500011b class. Therefore, an increase of an average of even lOOOlbs from the daughters is of importance from the standpoint of profitable returns.
"Assume," says Professor G. C. White, of Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs "that a reasonably veil-bred sire increases the production of the daughters by 31bs per day. 'TiMs seems small, but for 300 days the increasei would be 9001b&. In a herd of ten milking cows , th ; .s is an increase of 9,0001bs of milk per year, and for the average milking life of the cows an increase of •is,ooolbs. At 4d per quart this is an increase iin returns of £6 17s 6d per cow per year, £68 IBs 6d for ten cows per year and £348 9s 2d for ten cows for five years, largely net
"Now what is the extra cost of a good sire? The initial cost of a goO'l sire is about £40 and the scrub £20.
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Northern Advocate, 8 October 1920, Page 1
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209MONEY VALUE OF BULL. Northern Advocate, 8 October 1920, Page 1
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