no AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



No. 49 No. 80 



Cows 7 grade Jerseys. 9 Natives. 



Cost of food $41 GO $33 00 



Creamery checks $62 80 16 17 



Pounds of fat 249 78 



Pounds of butter 291 91 



Price received for fat 25.2 21.6 



Roughage fed Hay, soiHng. . . .Late cut and poor hay 



Concentrates fed Mixed wheat feed. . .Mixed wheat feed 



Cottonseed meal, 

 Barley and oats. 



Stable . Good Fair 



Reading Several farm and dairy papers. . None 



Kind of dairying Winter Summer 



What an instructive set of parallel data. And there are worse 

 cases than number 8o's. 



Mr. Lyon in his summary of this census makes some interest- 

 ing comparisons. He shows that in the average profit making 

 herd as compared with that making a loss : 



The costs per cow for food were 



The returns per cow were 



The gain or loss per cow were 



That in the herds which pay a profit: Those where good 

 proteinous rations were fed returned $7.31 per cow; those 

 where rations low in protein were fed returned $5.08 per cow 

 or but seven-tenths as much. That in the herds which make 

 losses : Those where good proteinous rations were fed lost but 

 $5.55 per cow; those where rations low in protein were fed lost 

 $8.87 per cow or three-fifths more. The herds which make a 

 profit were half and half winter and summer dairies; those 

 which achieved a loss were one-fourth winter and three-fourths 

 summer dairies. 



The summary of the relationship of dairy intelligence to dairy 

 success is most enlightening. It is the same general outcome 

 that was found out on the other side of the Connecticut. 16 

 of the 100 dairymen read dairy papers and 15 of them made 

 profits with their herds averaging $8.20. The profit making 

 dairymen who did not read dairy papers averaged $5.20 per cow. 



