Vermont Dairymen's Association. 83 



These prices for the product are rather high for a five year 

 average ; but if wc take the present prices for feed the comparison 

 will be fair. 



20 weeks' pasture at 40c $ 8 00 



2 tons hay at $12 24 00 



I ton stover at $6 or 2 tons silage at $3 6 00 



ton grain at $26 .|. ., 1. .1. . . ... .< 13 00 



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$51 GO 



This may be considered a fair amount of feed for an average 

 cow and the cost is in keeping with present times and prices 

 for milk and butter. It is apparent that with average cows the 

 margin of profit is small and there is very little compensation 

 for the management and labor expended, and very little hope 

 of lifting the mortgage from the farm by their agency. This 

 will be realized with still greater force when we remember the 

 6 per cent, interest, the taxes and the depreciation of the plant, 

 requiring to be frequently ofllset by expense for repairs and re- 

 newals, and other incidental items not considered in the mere 

 feeding of cows. 



The average cow is not then a bonanza, and will never con- 

 tribute materially towards lifting the mortgages from our New 

 England farms. 



But there are cows much better than the average ; cows that 

 produce much more milk and butter and pay a handsome profit 

 above the cost of their maintenance. 



pie:terje II. 



A Holstein Friesian, is reported to have given 30,3i8^''2 

 pounds of milk in one year, or about 14,000 quarts; an average 

 of almost 40 quarts daily for the entire period. Think of it 

 farmers, when you have to strip four or five cows to get a pail- 

 ful, of milking four pails full a day for a full year from one cow. 

 Just about the product of ten average cows. 



PAULINE PAUL. 



Another Holstein Friesian, is said to have produced 1,154 

 pounds of butter in a year. 



PRINCESS II. 



A Jersey, is recorded with 46 pounds of butter in seven 

 days, which if true, would be at the rate of over two thousand 

 pounds per year. 



There are several records, well authenticated however, of 

 cows producing from 25 to 30 pounds of butter in seven days, 



