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AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



COST OF DrcnSTTHLE NUTRIENTS PER POUND IN VARIOUS FOOD 



STUFFS. 



\\'e will see that if we pay even lo or 15 cents a quart for 

 good clean milk, we will not be paying as much, considering 

 the actual food value, as we do for some other foods. As a 

 source of digestible dry matter it is very economical, a fact that 

 few people understand. 



In visiting the different dairy farmers throughout the State 

 it is very often recommended that certain changes be made so 

 that the milk will be a little cleaner. This often necessitates a 

 slight cost on the part of the man in charge of the farm. It 

 does not mean that he must at once invest a large capital, and 

 put cement floors under his cows or have white tiling in his 

 milk room, or anything like that. A small change will bring 

 about results. If a man can be induced to use a covered milk 

 pail he has been started on the right line, or if he can be in- 

 duced to whitewash the entire stable or to put a -few more win- 

 dows in or to have his cows a little cleaner, to wipe the udder 

 with a damp, or a dry, cloth and to give the cows a good scrub- 

 bing at least once a week. Of course if he is to produce clean 

 milk he must change a little from the old method that has been 



