94 THE BOOK OF ENSILAGE, 



brood- sows (any large breed), and a pure Berkshire 

 boar to use on them. You can keep the 28 cows, the 

 100 sheep, and the seven hogs on the Ensilage which you 

 will raise on the 1 5 acres. If the contractor tries to beat 

 down the price of milk, you can make butter, and have 

 the skimmed milk to feed to the pigs. If your cows 

 each give 2,000 quarts of milk per year, you can make 

 200 pounds at least of butter. The skim-milk, the run 

 of the five-acre orchard (you must ring the hogs when 

 you turn them out to pasture) , and Ensilage in the win- 

 ter, will make you at least 500 pounds of pork to each 

 cow. This will give you $20 for butter, if you have to sell 

 it at ten cents per pound. 500 pounds pork at three 

 cents per pound is $15. You will also raise a fine calf 

 worth at least $10 when a year old. This gives you for 

 each cow $45, or $1,260 for the 28 head. Your 100 

 sheep will shear you seven pounds of wool on an average 

 (my merinos average between nine and ten pounds), 

 worth unwashed at least 30 cents per pound, $2.10 a head, 

 or $210 on the whole flock. Then you will raise, by the 

 use of Cotswold bucks, 90 lambs or more, which will be 

 worth when four months old, at least $4 per head ; this 

 is $360 more. Now let us see : your income will be as 

 follows : 



For butter, 5,600 pounds, at 10 cents . . $560 oo 



For pork, 14,000 pounds, at 3 cents . . 420 oo 



28 yearlings, at $10 apiece . . . . 280 oo 



700 pounds wool at 30 cents . . . 210 oo 



90 lambs (Cotswold merinos) at $4 . . 360 oo 



Total ........ $1,830 oo 



" You must in the future, as in the past, make the 

 sales of fruit, eggs, poultry, and vegetables pay the 

 butcher's and grocer's bills, so that there will be to 



