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results. Kow if wo figure tliis yield at thirty cents a pound, 

 we shall find that a dairy of twenty cows will produce eight 

 hundred and forty dollars in butter during the season. It 

 certainly will not take a very close calculating man to see 

 that no farmer can afford to hire help, at present prices for 

 the same, and carry on dairy operations with such small 

 returns. But let us see if we can not better the case by 

 feeding grain. I think I communicated with about ten dif- 

 ferent men who have fed grain to their cows, and in every 

 case have found the most gratifying results. Those that 

 have followed this practice, have made their cows to yield 

 from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds each. 

 And another thing : I find that the butter made from cows 

 fed grain will command a higher price in market, other 

 things being equal. I need not dwell upon this point, for I 

 think it will be conceded that the better the quality of the 

 food the cows receive, the better the butter produced. Any 

 man that has not tried feeding grain, will be surprised at 

 the difference in body, color and flavor of butter made from 

 grain fed cows. I think I am safe in concluding, from what 

 I have learned by interviewing enterprising dairymen, that 

 at least two cents more per pound have been realized by 

 those that have fed grain than by those that have not. Now 

 if my conclusions are correct, we need figure no further to 

 find that we can make dairying a more remunerative busi- 

 ness than it is to-day. Bat I wish to go througli this sub- 

 ject to the end, and see where we shall come out. To give 

 the old system the benefit of a doubt, if any should claim 

 it, I will call the average of grain fed cows, two hundred 



