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tured to claim tlie six orphan runts (above referred to) during the summer, 

 when they could "^'run in the road," or maybe trespass on you and others, per- 

 force of hunger, has often groaned to your face and growled behind your back 

 because you were (in his estimation) such a fool as to spend so much on owe' 

 steer. The drover or butcher now visits your neigliborhood, looks at your one 

 calf, must have him at some price ; you are not anxious to sell, because you 

 know the calf will yet pay to keep. Your old-fashioned neighbor hears of the- 

 drover ; he wants money terribly (and he always will), so he scours the com- 

 mons and drives up his six little underlings, which but for their scrawny appear- 

 ance and a^vful horns, might be mistaken for calves yet. The cattle buyer looks 

 at them, is sick, don't want them at any price, won't have them any way, and 

 leaves, followed by the alternate groans and imprecations of the poor man who 

 is too short-sighted to sec his own interest, and must now keep his starved calves 

 one or two years longer before he can coax any sensible man to take them off 

 his hands. No wonder he is disgusted with stock raising, and Icnoivs it won't 

 pay. Let me here stop to say the fii^st year generally decides the fate of all 

 our stock. 



Take another illustration : Two men start with each a cow every way alike ; 

 they pay say $60 each for them ; they are good ones. At the end of a year the 

 two men compare results as follows : 



A has his cow charged with ten per cent on cost $6 00 



Tea per cent for sinking fund to replace cow in ten years 6 00 



pasture 22 weeks @ 30 cents 6 60 



Com fodder,, straw, etc .,,,„., , „ „ , 6 00 



11 tons good hay @ ^8.... .....__... 10 00 



1^ tons shorts or mill feed @ 115 22 50 



45 bushels mangolds or sugar beets @ 10 cents ...... 4 50 



Salt 40 



Total- - - S63 00 



And credited with an average of 12 quarts good milk per day for 300 



days equals 3,600 quarts, at 3 cents per quart, — total - $108 €0 



Deducting Dr. from Cr. side gives net profit of - - 46 0,0 



B has less items in his account, which stands as follows : 



Ten per cent on cost - 16 OO- 



Ten per cent sinking fund 6 00> 



26 weeks pasture @ SO cents - 7 80 



Two tons hay @ $8 - 16 00 



Eoagh feed, stalks, etc - - 1 20 



Total - --- -- $37 00 



By 8 quarts milk per dav for 270 days, — 2,160 quarts, at 2^ cents per 



quart,— total - - $54 00 



iDeducting Dr. from Cr. side shows a net profit for the year of 17 00 



I'Both have had abundance of good water.) 



Now, by analyzing these two accounts we see A's profits are $29 more than 

 B's, or 170 per cent greater, — no trifling difference. We notice that A's cow 

 continued in milk 30 days longer than B's, and that she averaged 50 per cent 

 more milk per day, and also that it was worth half a cent or 20 per cent more 

 per quart. These differences in her favor are all accounted for in tlie difference 



