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thirty-five cents would amount to two hundred and ninety- six 

 dollars. Any one can made such allowances as ti.ey see fit. 



The expense of keeping this cow, or rather four«year old heifer, 

 we know exactly. In nine months she ate a ton and a half of 

 good hay, worth $15 a ton, one ton of low meadow hay worth $7.50, 

 ten bushels of corn meal, $5 worth of shorts and $2.50 worth of 

 roots, making in all $46; to which if we add $10 for the other 

 three months, (a liberal estimate) we have $56, and this deducted 

 from $200 leaves $240 as net income. I mention these details 

 because they came within my own personal knowledge and are 

 exact. The case shows the capabilities of the breed, or grades of 

 the breed in some cases as milkers. In the quality and quantity 

 of milk and cream and readiness of churning, this heifer was very 

 unlike her dam, which gave rather above an average in quantity 

 but her butter was scauty, light colored and difficult to churn. 

 You cannot expect such eminent transmission of dairy qualities in 

 every case ; and for some reason or other the cow has not done so 

 well since. She is a fine cow, and there, is now a fair prospect 

 of her doing as well hereafter if properly treated. Like other 

 machinery running at so high speed, there is friction and constant 

 danger of running out of order, unless the greatest caution and 

 good judgment are exercised constantly. I have never heard of 

 any other cow which did so well upon the same feed. She had no 

 name 



Frienu Taylor. — The owner of the famouB Ingalls cow told me 

 he tried her three consecutive weeks — she run to pasture and had 

 two quarts of oat meal in the morning. The first week she yielded 

 nineteen pounds of butter ; the second week twenty ; the third 

 week twenty-one pounds. She was a native cow, with pretty 

 long horns and a large belly. He knew nothing about the breed, 

 excepting that he picked her up as a native cow. I should like 

 to ask the opinion of others in regard to selecting cows. I used 

 to think a cow that had a pretty deep bag and large udder was 

 the cow to choose, but I have been very unsuccessful in selecting 

 such cows. They are large milkers and will be likely to give good 

 milk, but I never could keep a cow of that description many years 

 before she would have ulcers in the bag and be ruined. I suppose 

 the great flow of milk causes disease of the udder. I would now 

 select a cow with a bag pretty long on the belly and not very 

 deep nor with very large teats, and such a cow, in my opinion, 

 will hold out longer and not be so liable to be diseased in the bag. 



