CHAPTER XXX. 



VALUE INVESTED IN COWS; LOW AVERAGE OF PRODUCTION; 

 DAIRY SOILS; DAIRY FACTORIES; DAIRY WOMEN; LOVE OF 

 FINE CATTLE. 



WE have now given an exhaustive and thorough discussion to 

 the subject of milk cows too extended and tedious, perhaps, for 

 the ordinary reader but none too minute for the dairyman who 

 embarks his capital for the most profitable production in their 

 management, or even for the individual householder who keeps 

 his one or more cows for family use. 



We have seen that many millions of dollars are invested in 

 cows throughout the United States, and that these investments 

 have been made with a view to pecuniary rJtofit, in the way of 

 young stock, and milk, and butter, and cheese, aside from the 

 comfort and luxury they yield the household. 



It is a fact too palpable for dispute, that the average of cows 

 kept throughout the country, for milk production, is a low one. 

 Various exceptions show what amount of milk a really good 

 cow can produce, under proper selection, with abundant food of 

 the right kind, and good care. With such examples as the latter 

 for a standard, at which, in due time, we may arrive, if the proper 

 means be taken to accomplish it, we can add twenty to fifty, or 

 even a hundred per cent, to the production and profit of our 

 cows, with little additional cost. We have known we now 

 know men who derive an income from a single cow, in the 

 sale of her milk, beyond the annual cost of her keeping, besides 

 supplying their own families with milk and cream, and sometimes 



