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the equipment (michoscope, refrigerator, etc, needed by the local association) y thereafter annual dues are $1 per member. The breeding fee is $7 lp«r cow due at the time she is first bred; this covers three services if necessary to start a new gestation period. Breakdown of the breeding fee is as follows: $1.75 for semen; 75c operating capital for the local association and $4.50 to pay the salary of the inseminator.
Thus costs to a member with five cows will in the first twelve-month period be $40 and thereafter $36 per year..
In return he can expect to get veal calves that present members say are better than those had formerly and heifers worth $50 more a head on the market. Daughters of VABA bulls have averaged producing 1000 lbs. more milk than their dams. Thus on our market ($4/cwt.) a cow from one of these bulls should produce $40 more per year in milk than her mother.
Another favorable factor is that any member can breed to a Jersey, Holstein or Guernsey bull. Most local dairy cow owners have indicated they will breed their cows to the bull of her breed, others will build toward one breed of their choice.
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