628 BOARD OF AGKICULTUKE. ' 



now, but if you think that is not right, j'ou must nialie your own allow- 

 ance, as you have got to do with a great many of these things. No 

 man can make an arbitrai^y rule that will fit all of you. 



Tliat left an average profit of $19.08 after paying for the feed and 

 $12.50 for labor. Many people do not figure the labor in. Of course 

 they would have $32.48 for profit. 



Now, out of those fifty cows I picked out nine. I picked out the 

 four poorest cows in the stable, then I picked out a cow that would 

 be just about on the dead line, as you might term it; she would barely 

 squeeze through and not get me into debt. Then I picked out four of 

 the better cows— not the best ones, but pretty good average. You see 

 what I wanted was to get an average of the whole fifty in that nine, 

 and to show you how near I reached the object, the average of the fifty 

 cows was 297.7 pounds of butter, while the average of the nine that 

 I am going to talk about was 295.3 pounds. 



