102 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



milk delivered at cheese factory four luouths, $180; calves sold, 

 and butter made the rest of the year, $120 ; making the total income 

 for the year $300, and giving an income of $75 per cow, and a 

 profit on each of $2.3. We believe this sum, and, in fact, a much 

 larger one, can be realized yearly by every farmer, on any good 

 dairy cow, if he will give it the proper care and feed it requires. 

 To the doubting ones we would say, try the experiment and be con- 

 vinced that there is mone^- in the dairy cow. If properly handled 

 she will give an income of from $2.') to $50 a year, above the cost 

 of keeping, We presume many will say we have made our estimate 

 too high ; but we claim to be very modest, for by consulting several 

 dairymen that make the butter dairy a specialty, we find that some 

 get an income of from $90 to $100 per cow. 



Some dairymen claim that a cow that will not make three hundred 

 pounds of butter a 3'ear it will not pav to keep ; they say the butter 

 should sell for thirt}' cents a pound, which is almost an average 

 price for good butter. 



Mr. Hall, a dairyman of twent^'-five 3'ears' experience, in giving 

 his figures, sa^^s it is a good cow that will make three hundred 

 pounds of butter in one A'ear ; that his average price has been thirt3' 

 cents per pound. He figures — 



300 pounds of butter, at 30 cents a pound $90 00 



Skimmed milk 15 00 



Total 105 00 



Cost of keeping for the year 50 00 



Net profit per cow $55 00 



Many call a cow that will make one hundred and fifty pounds a 

 year, a good cow ; so we will see what the profits are from her : 



150 pounds butter, at 30 cents a pound 645 00 



Skimmed milk 10 00 



Total 55 00 



Cost of keeping 50 00 



Net profit per cow $5 00 



Mr. Kdson Jones of Turner, made G72^ pounds of butter from 

 two cows in 1881. Mr. J. T. Floyd, Winthrop, has for several 

 years averaged upwards of 300 pounds to each cow, the present 



