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I'OOR FEED AND I'OOK CARE. 



.No. 7. Four cows; 3 grade Jerseys, 1 grade Holstein. Cost of feed, 

 !i!18.50; ration, com stover and straw and very little brau in winter. lu 

 summer, pasture only. 



Returns for butter fat, $18.17; number pounds of milk, 2,443; number 

 lbs. butter fat, 90.2; price of butler fat, 18.8 cents; price of milk per IfK) 

 lbs.. 74.4 cents; value of butter fat for one dollar's worth of feed, $0.1)8; 

 received for butter fat, 33 cents less per cow than the food she ate was 

 »vorth. His stable was cold, cows poorly cared for. The value of the 

 feed was not much, but the coavs did not pay for it, small as it was. 



DIFFERENCE IX MEX AS WELL AS COWS FOR DAIRY WOUK. 



No. 17. Seventeen cows; one Guernsey, some grade Guernseys, but 

 most of them common cows of no particular breeding, which the owner 

 had selected and bought around iu the country, and nearly all of good 

 dairy type. Cost of feed, $27; ration, "oat feed" (cost $13 po» ton) 6 lbs.; 

 at times, same amount of brau instead; silage 40 lbs., cld^l^^ay and 

 corn fodder in winter. In summer 2 lbs. oat feed and pasture. 



Returns for butter fat, $46.95; number pounds milk, 5,436; number 

 pounds butter fat, 239.3; price of butter fat, 19.6 cents; price of milk per 

 100 pounds, 86.4 cents; value of butter fat for one dollar's worth of feed, 

 $1.74; net profit in butter fat over cost of feed, $19.95. Stable is excel- 

 lent; cows fastened with swing stanchions. 



No. 21. Eight cows, one-half of them two-year-old heifers, one three- 

 year-old, all fresh in fall except two; grade Holsteins except 2 common 

 stock. Cost of feed, $22; ration, 2 pounds oat feed, .1^4 pounds oil meal, 

 45 pounds silage, and corn fodder in winter; in summer, pasture only. 



Returns for butter fat, $44.41; number pounds milk, 6,088; number 

 pounds butter fat, 220.4; price of butter fat, 20.1 cents; price of milk per 

 100 pounds, 72.9 cents; value of butter fat for one dollar's worth of feed, 

 $2.02; net profit in butter fat over cost of feed, $22.41. 



No. 23. Seven cows. They are a mixed lot of no particular breed- 

 ing; they are not good dairy type, neither are they good beef type; still 

 they are in good condition, showing they have been well fed. Cost of 

 feed, $20; ration, 2 ears corn, 30 pounds silage, clover hay and corn 

 stover in winter; in summer one ear corn to call them in to be milked, 

 and pasture. 



Returns for butter fat, $23.39; number pounds milk, 3,036; number 

 pounds of butter fat, 124.7; price of butter fat, 18.7 cents; price of milk 

 per 100 pounds, 77 cents; value of butter fat for one dollar's worth of 

 feed, $1.17; net profit in butter fat over cost of feed, $3.39. 



I must make some comments on these last three numbers. They all 

 three fed silage and all have good comfortable stables, but Nos. 17 and 



