UNPROFITABLE COWS.
A CHESHIRE SOCIETY’S RECORDS.
The year’s records of the Cheshire Alilk Recording Society shows that a considerable percentage of cows in Cheshire are not yielding enough milk to make them profitable. The object of securing records is to eliminate all unprofitable dairy stock. The highest yield given by any cow belonging to a member of the Cheshire Society was over 3200 gallons for me year, and the highest yield given by a heifer was over into gallons of milk. In one herd of IS cows the a vertigo, yield was over 920 gallons. Another herd of 30 cows showed an average yield of 800 gallons. Many cows .in Cheshire are yielding little more than from 300 to 400 gallons of milk pier year, whereas the cost of their upkeep is quite three-quarters as much as that of those giving twice as much mill;.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 21 January 1920, Page 4
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145UNPROFITABLE COWS. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 21 January 1920, Page 4
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