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and ten pounds, and the increased price obtained, equal to 

 one cent a pound only. 



Now then, take two farmers, for instance, whose lands 

 jioin, and who keep twenty cows. Their pastures and gen- 

 eral management are similar, with this difference: A feeds 

 his cows on the old plan ; gives them what hay they require 

 in winter in order to bring ihcm through in fair condition, 

 with pastures in summer, and makes two thousand eight 

 hundred pounds of butter, which, at thirty cents a pound, 

 would amount to eight hundred and forty dollars in the 

 aggregate for the season. B is not satished with these fig- 

 ures, so he adds to the feed of his cows four quarts of coarse 

 middlings a day to each, through the entire milking scjison, 

 and obtains the following results : four thousand two hun- 

 dred pounds of butter, for which he realizes one thousand 

 three hundred and two dollars, at thirty-one cents a pound, 

 lie has fed nine tons of middlings, which, at twenty -four 

 dollars per ton, would amount to two hundred and sixteen 

 dollars. Deduct this from the receipts for the butter, and 

 he has left one thousand and eighty-six dollars. A gets for- 

 ty-two dollars per cow, B fifty-four dollars and thirty cents, 

 or twelve dollars and thirty cents more than A, after deduct- 

 ing the cost of the meal. 



Now 1 calculate that B has been amply repaid for the 

 trouble in feeding his cows this grain in their extra condi- 

 tion, when it comes fall, and in the less amount of hay they 

 will require the following winter ; so I think it but fair to 

 figure what he got more than A, after paying for this grain, 

 a« extra profits on the money invested in its purchase. 



This amounts to the snug little sum of two hundred and 



