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foundation. In a bus}- and prosperous community money is 

 apparent!}' paid quite as readily for the luxuries as for the so- 

 called necessities of life. For example : while the amount ol 

 ti'avel by ordinary passenger cars has grown with wonderful 

 rapidity, the amount of travel by the higher priced, drawing-room 

 and palace and hotel cars has kept on growing also. The con- 

 sumption of beer at five cents a glass grows day by da}', but is 

 there any falling off in the sales of champaigne which costs, say, 

 fort}' cents a glass ? 



We must produce not only the most but the best butter, and 

 statistics from New York and Boston markets show conclusively 

 that the best butter is made from the milk of Jersey cows. Much 

 butter is sold daily in New York, at one dollar a pound, and all, 

 with the exception of one old brand, from Jersey cows, and much 

 is sold in Boston and New York and the other leading cities of the 

 United States at 80, and 70, and 60, and 50 cents, and this is made 

 from Jersey cows. The butter of this breed has a higher flavor and 

 a firmer texture and a deeper color than any other known. There 

 are some good butter makers and some good livers who still main- 

 tain that in their opinion Jersey butter is "rank;" as there is no 

 arguing about tastes, as the proverb says, we may simply remark 

 here that in spite of the assertion of some of our worthy but 

 old-fashioned friends that "good, hard cider is the best drink in 

 the world," nevertheless, a great deal of the frothy and eff'everscent 

 liquid called champaigne is sold at three and four dollars a bottle, 

 and I fancy that more money is made from the manufacture and the 

 sale of the latter, than of the former liquid. 



3. But even if the greater quantity and the superior quality of 

 the butter of the Jersey be admitted, the question may be asked, 

 and appropriately, is this butter produced profitably ? A good 

 Jersey is a good eater, but also a good "digester," and compared 

 with what she produces, she does not consume more than other 

 cows. I have made two pounds of butter a day from many a cow 

 of this breed, whose feed has either been in summer pasture only, 

 or in winter one quart of corn meal, and three quarts of bran, and 

 fifteen pounds of hay, all fed dry. And the cow Bomba, just semi- 

 oflficially tested, gave over three pounds of butter a day, some days 

 running on moderate pasture and an average of two quarts mid- 

 dlings, a pint of corn meal and a pint of linseed meal a day. 



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