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average, this would give fifty pounds of butter from 

 the same feed that produces one hundred pounds of 

 beef. This estimate, though it comes nearer than the 

 previous one, errs in the opposite direction, and the 

 truth undoubtedly lies between them. 



Others have computed the ratio of butter to beef, 

 on equal quantities of feed, as eighty to one hundred, 

 which is evidently more reasonable than either of the 

 others, and seems to be very nearly correct. Com- 

 paring this with the proportion of beef to corn, as 

 given on a former page, it will be found that, for a 

 pound of butter it would require five pounds of 

 corn, over and above the stover, or other feed given 

 to sustain the cow. Then, by the same calculation 

 that gave fourteen pounds of beef for seventy-two 

 cents, we shall have eleven and one-fifth pounds of 

 butter for the same sum, which is about six and one- 

 half cents per pound. 



In this calculation the farmer has charged his corn 

 at one dollar per bushel, and his stalks at six dollars 

 per ton. If these were charged at the expense* of 

 producing them, the effect would be to bring the cost 

 of the butter to about four cents per pound, without 

 taking the manure into the account. If the expense 

 of grinding the corn and chaffing the stalks were 

 added to this, and also the expense for labor in making 

 the butter^ the cost of the latter would still not proba- 

 bly exceed six or seven cents per pound. 



In dairies devoted to cheese, the total product of 



* Calling the expense thirty cents per bushel for the grain, and 

 three dollars per ton for the stalks. 



