380 now TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



a largo six-gallon bucket and putting into it two gallons of 

 scalding water; tlien add seven pounds of the fine oil meal 

 Stir the oil cake and water together, and add two gallons of hay 

 tea into which middlings, barley, or oat meal have been mixed. 

 It requires but little calculation to estimate the comparative 

 economy of these different methods. If we suppose the calf to 

 run with the cow for six months, and to take eight quarts a 

 day, which an ordinary cow ought to give for the first six 

 months aftfer calving, we have the cost as follows: 



8 quarts, at 2 cents a quart, for six months, . . . $26.88 

 8 " "3 " " " "... 40.32 



8 " "4 " " " "... 53.76 



There are few locations Avhere milk will not command one 

 of these prices, either to sell or to convert into butter or cheese. 

 If we take the first estimate, and add to it the cost of keeping 

 during the first winter, we have the following as the cost at one 

 year old : 



Amount of milk consumed . . $26 88 



Hay the first winter 6 00 



Boots, at the rate of half peck per day for 4 months, 3.05 



Cost at one year old . . . $34.93 



Take now the method of bringing up by hand as indicati-d, 

 and say, 



50 quarts of milk at 2 cents per quart $1.00 



700 quarts of milk at 1 cent per quart 7.00 



Pasture for fiv^e months 2 00 



Hay during first winter 5.00 



Roots for four months of first winter, half peck pel 



day, at 20 cents a bushel 3.05 



Cost of one year old raised by hand . . $18.05 



