594 BOARD OK AGKlCULTUitE. 



of buttor fat, 1"J.4 cents; average amount for one dollar's worth of feed, 

 $1.20; avera;,'e net profit per cow. $7.24. There were 5 patrons having 

 45 coM's who fed silage last winter, and their average net proiit was 

 $16.74 per cow. There were 45 patrons having 237 cows, who did not 

 feed silnge. and their average net profits per cow was $5.57— $11.17 less. 



VALUE OF SKIM MILK. 



I asked those I interviewed what, in their opinion, was the value of 

 skim milk for feed. I got answers from 45. They run all the way from 

 nothing to 40 cents per 100 pounds. 



The most of them said they did not know just how much it was 

 worth, had no means of knowing very accurately, but they all, with the 

 exception of the two e^ctremes I have mentioned, guessed it to be worth 

 from 10 to 25 cents a 100 pounds. 



One man was very positive that the skim milk he got back from the 

 creamery was worth absolutely nothing. One man answered promptly 

 and in a positive manner, "40 cents." 



I said. "Do you think you can get that out of it?" 



"I know I can, now that I have a farm separator." 



"How?" 



"By feeding it in connection with other feed to such pigs as those," 

 pointing to a splendid lot of j'oung hogs, which, I think, were thorough- 

 breds. Then he added, "I could not raise as nice pigs as those without 

 the skim milk." 



DOES IT PAY TO TAKE DAIRY PAPERS? 



One other question that I asked each one, was, "Do you take and 

 read a dairy paper? 



Nearly all of them take agricultural papers with a little dairy read- 

 ing in them, but only six of those I asked take any paper especially 

 devoted to dairy. These six take Hoard's Dairyman and some of them 

 The Dairy and Creamery. 



I felt curious to know whether those who took dairy papers made 

 enough more profits out of the business to pay the subscription price 

 of the papers. I figured it up and I find that the six who take Hoard's 

 Dairyman averaged in net profits per cow, for butter fat, over cost of 

 feed, $11.07, while the 44 who do not take a dairy paper averaged, in 

 net profit per cow, only $5.58 — a difference of $5.49 per cow in favor 

 of the man who tries to inform himself by reading the experience of 

 others who are engaged in the same business as himself, and who 

 reads the investigations of scientists, along dairy lines, in the matter 

 of feeding cows and all the other problems that arise to confront the 

 dairyman. 



