FAEMERS' INSTITUTES. 247 



lbs. of milk, Avliicii ucttecl 0| mills per pouuci as cheese $325 47 



Raised three calves worth $10 each 30 00 



Making for seven cows 5 3-7 montiis $355 07 



Had the seven covrs been in the wliole season, six months, they would have 

 given 37,801 lbs. of milk, which, at 9A- mills per lb., the account would stand: 



Milk of seven cows six months 37,801 lbs. at 9^ mills $359 10 



Three calves 810 each : 30 00 



Total for seven cows six months. $389 10 



Or for one cow six months 55 58 



The account stands, then, compared as that year's return of the two kinds of 

 stock, like this: The product of ten sheep one year, $40.74; the product of 

 one cow for six months, $55.58, with three months milking season yet to account 

 for. Xow, one month's average of these seven cows is $8. £5, and if the three 

 months unaccounted for is only equal to one month in the factory, then the 

 cow in this count would show for a year's gross earnings $04.03, or a difference 

 in favor of the cow over ten sheep of $23.29. 



Estimating 22 pounds of milk to make one pound of butter, the cows Avould 

 have made in the six months 1,718 pounds of butter, and 20 cents per pound 

 would have given $49.08 per cow; and sold as milk at five cents per quart, 

 $127.05 per cow as gross earnings. 



This look of the dairy business does not confine it to one particular line of 

 product for profitable handling. 



DISCUSSION. 



Prof. Beal. — Do you not think it costs more to keep ten sheep than one cov>'? 



Mr. Solon. — Probably it does; from seven to ten sheep are reckoned as equal 

 to one cow. 



Mr. Wing. — You can pasture sheep where you cannot pasture cows, — on sum- 

 mer fallows and nevv rough places, where they are really a benefit. 



Mr. F. S. Finley. — I can keep two cows as easily as ten slieep, 



Hon. J. J. Robinson. — If it is true that animals consume food in proportion 

 to their weight, it would require ten very large sheep to eat as much as two 

 cows. 



Mr. D. M. Uhl. — It is not true that animals eat in proportion to their weight 

 any more than that men do. 



Mr. R. F. Johnstone gave an address on "' The Profits of Different Breeds of 

 Cattle for Beef and Dairving." 



AFTERXOOX SESSION. 



After an opening piece of music by the band, Mr. John P. Finley gave the 

 following address on 



FAE3I FENCING. 



The importance of judicious management in the oj^erations of farm fencing 



