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moved from the herd with an unpaid balance on her total board bill of $6.67. 

 As a business proposition No. 16 should have been sold for beef when she 

 dried up the first year but from an experimental standpoint it was advisable 

 to retain her in the herd. 



The cows whose records are herein reported were just ordinary cows, 

 such as could be selected at random almost anywhere in Michigan, Their 

 records as shown here are not phenomenal, but are just fair. The figures 

 as given seem to show that the feeding and care of cows have much to do 

 with a dairy farmers profit. 



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