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I give in the following table the results of my herd for the calendar 

 year 1902. No cow should be kept unless she gives 6,000 pounds of 5 

 per cent milk after her second calf. While I milked twelve animals 

 during the year, three of them were only in the herd eight months, 

 so my herd averaged eleven cows. 



Name. Pounds milk. 



First calf. 

 Bina (eight months) 4^,901 



Second calf. 



Elsie Williams 8,202 



Angela 6,630 



Bessie (eight months) 5,433 



Nan 5,644 



Third calf or over. 



Rose Edson 6.300 



Doris Dale ~. 6,537 



Jenessie 7,671 



Ollie Fisk 6,814 



Edna (eight months) 4,954 



Scrubby (grade) 5,265 



Sixteen years old. 

 Matilda 8.806 



75,157 

 Annual average per cow, 6,832 pounds; 5.4 per cent. 



Each of the above cows were dry during the year from four to eight 

 weeks. The above figures indicate a butter production of 4,600 pounds, 

 or over 400 pounds per cow. 



The milk of this herd is made into cream and the cream sold directly 

 to the consumer in Adrian. Considerable skim milk is also sold at two 

 cents per quart. The balance of the skim milk goes to feed the thor- 

 oughbred calves, all of which are sold for breeding purposes. Under 

 such circumstances the returns are hardly a fair comparison for the 

 average dairy herd. I give them for what they are worth. Cream 

 and skim milk sold during the year, '|1,350.00. Young stock sold, 

 1325.00; making gross returns of over |150 per cow. These figures 

 do not include milk and cream for a family of six, nor two quarts a 

 day for the hired man, nor butter that we get from an occasional 

 churning when the cream trade is dull, nor calves on hand during the 

 year, nor milk for twelve cats. After looking over these resijlts, I feel 

 that my method of building up a dairy herd has been fairly successful. 



