Are you milking the right breed of dairy cow? Dr W S. Griffith, assistant dairy specialist at VPi. says dairymen are more “breed conscious” than they have been for years. Butterfat has trouble finding an adequate nia’ ket under the present pricing system. In some states, milk that is lew in solids not-fat brings less on the market. The extremes in butterfat tests are pouited up in the Holsjtein and Je-sey breeds. A normal healthy H is'ein cow should produce milk testing about 3 (> per cent butterfat. A normal healthy Jersey cow should produce milk testing 5.3 per cjent butterfat. If your market pays well for high butterfat content, then it will proba bly be best to keep Guernseys or Jerseys. However, if the butterfat differential is low. Holsteins may be the best breed for your market. Dir Griffith says. Brown Swiss and Ayr shire cattle produce milk testing about 4.0 per cent and are closer to the low- than to the high-testing breeds. Feed Costs

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