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one side ; care, labor, interest, depreciation, etc. on the other. 

 But it is held for working purposes that these miscellaneous 

 incomes are offset by these miscellaneous outgoes ; so the result 

 is a straight comparison of the creamery income with the food 

 cost. These data are taken on many farms, and are based on 

 the doings of the average cow on each farm. An example, 

 taken at random ; New Hampshire census, herd No. lo. The 

 observer goes to John Smith's farm and asks him as to his feed- 

 ing practice. He thus determines, as best he may from informa- 

 tion thus obtained, modified by his personal judgment, about 

 how much is fed, and he applies the rated prices, $io for hay, 

 $5 or $6 for corn fodder, grain at cost price, etc. In this herd, 

 No. 10, the hay and corn fodder were rated at $20; grain, $6; 

 pasture, $5; a total of $31 per cow for food. Of course the 

 farmer did not pay directly for pasture or hay, but, equally of 

 course, he did pay for them indirectly. However it is estimated 

 that it cost him $31 on the average to feed a cow. He milked 

 eight cows and the creamery checks for the year amounted to 

 $207.20 or $25.90 per cow, equivalent to a loss of $5.10 per 

 cow. The butter fat averaged 107 pounds. The observer 

 further states that these eight cows showed some Jersey blood, 

 were fresh in the spring and in the fall, were stabled in a warm, 

 unventilated barn, and that their owner read local papers but no 

 agricultural papers. 



The New Hampshire investigation covered 100 herds, vary- 

 ing in size from two to fifty and averaging nine cows, just such 

 as may be found all over the better dairy sections of the State. 

 They seemed fully up to the average in milk and butter yields 

 and, perhaps, in care and feeding. Forty-one contained a suffi- 

 cient sprinkling of Jersey blood to warrant the use of the term 

 "Grade Jerseys ;" Holstein blood was dominant in twenty-three 

 herds ; there was one Ayrshire grade herd, and the remainder 

 were mixed lots of grades or so-called natives. Cost for food 

 ranged from $31 to $44 per cow, averaging $35.67. These 

 estimates were based on the average cost prices for grain feeds 

 and on arbitrary prices applied to hay, silage, corn fodder, etc. 

 Hay was rated at $10 a ton; silage at $3 a ton; pasturage at 

 $5 per cow. The average income per cow varied in the several 

 herds from $15.23 to $62.80 per cow and averaged about $33.17 

 representing in all cases the actual cash receipts from the cream- 



