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possible, the fanner weighs the milk each day. The tester visits the 

 farm one day each month, weighs the milk, tests it for butter-fat, weighs 

 the feed, computes from the result the cost of maintenance and the net 

 revenue. By this method every cow stands on her own merit, and the 

 " robbers " and the " boarders " can easily be separated from those that 

 pay. The results found in two associations that finished their year 

 in April, 1914, follow. The returns from cows in the best and the poorest 

 herds are shown in the following table. 

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