THE JERSEY COW A MONET MAKER. 131 



the food cost for one pound of butter, when there ie no pasture in 

 connection with the farm, as 20^ cts. But when there is pasture, 

 as is usually the ease, the food cost for each pound of butter would 

 be 17 1-G cents. 



Now, the practical man is asking himself the question : Can I 

 bear the expenses incident to the investment, taxes, cost of handling 

 the stock and manufacturing and marketing the product for the 

 raargin of difference between the cost and selling value of the 

 butter? 



A source of income not taken into account so far, is the heifer 

 calves produced. These calves, fed upon the sweet skimmed milk 

 — not for two or three months, but until they are eight or ten months 

 of age, — in connection with two quarts of wheat bran daily until the 

 time of coming in with the first calf at two years of age, wUl have 

 so well developed milk organs, and such vigor of constitution as to 

 be able to do profitable work in the dairy herd, and continue to grow 

 without serious check until the}- attain weights from 1000 to 1200 

 pouuds. There is a sharp demand for such cows, and the countr}' 

 is being constantly canvassed for them, for use in other states. 



Our city milk men are always ready to pay well for them, and in 

 neighborhoods where dairying is increasing in importance, and 

 creameries are being established, they are eagerl}' sought for. 

 There is no branch of cattle growing that pays so well as the 

 raising of grade Jersey cows of substance and quality. This feature 

 is a side issue to, and should always occupy' a place upon the dairy 

 farm. 



Another source of income, is the great underlying corner stone of 

 our agriculture — manure. By the employment of the cow, the hay 

 is sold upon the farm, the farmer receiving ten dollars per ton in cash for 

 it, and the farm retains nearly all the manural properties it contains. 

 The Jersey cow, as a machine, extracts tea dollars per ton in cash 

 from that hay and gives it to her owner. She takes from that hay 

 its fertilizing element with greater economy and certainty, than the 

 chemist can do, and gives them free of expense back to the acres 

 that produced it. She pays cash for the ton of grain that is 

 purchased for her each year, and extracts from it an amount of 

 plant food, equal to what is contained in two tons of good hay, thus 

 increasing the manure supplied to the farm more than fifty per cent 

 yearly, from this one source of grain feeding alone. Aside from 

 these considerations, she leaves with the farmer that cash margin 



