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 feed for a year, yet there is $28.08 difference in the net profit ob- 

 tained. The Jerseys are found to vary in about the same propor- 

 tion as the Holsteins. 



THE DAIRY CO^SQE/LUN-0/SJ^ 'MILLION STRONG 



The whole story in a nutshell. 

 (Oourtesy Farmers' Tribune.) 



NEW YORK, CORNELL STATION, AS REPORTED BY H. H. WING. 



Records of herd shows that Daisy produced 2,829.75 pounds 

 of milk and made butter fat at cost of 26 cents a pound, while 

 Freddie gave 11,165.00 pounds of milk and made butter fat at 

 121/2 cents per pound. Daisy produced milk at $1.48 a hundred 

 pounds ; Freddie produced milk at 47 cents a hundred pounds dur- 

 ing same year on same feed. 



OHIO, AS REPORTED BY C. G. WILLIAMS. 



Record of the Station herd showed that Patti's 5th, during a 

 certain experiment period, gave 2,967.1 pounds of milk, with a 

 profit over feed of $25.93, while Vanity's 2nd, during same time 

 and on same feed, gave only 819.4 pounds milk, with a profit over 

 feed of $3.43. Another group, same Station, Nelly's 4th, 2,861.9 

 pounds of milk, with a profit over feed of $16.44, while on the 

 same feed and during the same time Fancy's 4th gave but 605.2 

 pounds milk and was fed at an actual loss of $1.94. Same Sta- 

 tion reports for 1896 Daisy's 2nd gave 168.16 pounds fat, while 

 Ruby, during the same year, gave 521.32 pounds fat. The work 

 bestowed on these two animals was practically the same and the 

 feed cost was not greatly different. 



