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agriculture; of maine:. 



Contrast the above with a year's record of a poor herd, 1907, 

 by the same association. 



The cows in the good herd produced an average of 6,416 

 pounds of milk for the year and returned $2.56 for each dollar's 

 worth of feed. The second herd returned only 3,605 pounds 

 of milk per cow and $1.17 for each dollar's worth of feed. 



Notice the following improvement .in ten years in a Swedish 

 herd as a result of systematic weighing and record keeping. 

 Lundatrakten's Cow-testing Association, Sweden. 



