Value of Good Butter Cows. 87 



Table C. 



Reckoning the annual cost of keeping at thirt3'-five dollars, and butter 



at thirty cents a pound, reckoning interest on her cost, and on all receipts 



from her, a farmer will make on each cow as follows, viz : 



Paving $30 00 for a 200 pound cow, he will get in ten years, $182 87 



'" 125 00 " 300 " " " 354 78 



" 250 00 "400 " " " 483 49 



" 350 00 " 500 " " " 654 17 



•' 450 00 " 600 " " " 811 59 



Table D. 



On an annual cost of keeping of fifty dollars, and price of butter at thir- 

 ty-five cents : 



Paving ?30 00 for a 200 pound cow, he will get in ten years, $95 76 



"" 125 00 " 300 «' " " 318 39 



" 250 00 " 400 " " " 507 46 



" 350 00 " 500 " «' " 744 20 



" 450 00 " 600 " " " 960 90 



Assuming that each cow, costing at two j'ears old the price named in the 

 tables, will die at twelve years old, the actual value of cows to practical 

 farmers, making annually the different amounts of butter named, is shown. 



They show what the cow will make in the ten years, and also what a 

 farmer can affoi'd to pay for each cow making the different amounts of 

 butter named. They show the different amounts the farmer, who buys one 

 of each of the cows named, paying the prices named for each of the five, 

 will make on each, provided no interest is reckoned on the price paid for the 

 cow, or on the butter made from her, during ten years. 



These figures are certainly startling to any one who has not taken the 

 trouble to examine this subject, much more so to the farmer who never 

 figures carefully, and does exactly as his father did before him, without re- 

 gard to the altered circumstances that surround him. 



The farmer who shakes his head wisely at his more enterprising neighbor, 

 and insists that cows making as much butter as is mentioned m these five 

 tables do not live and never did, should know that the thoroughbred Jersey 

 cows, Jersey Belle of Scituate, of the Victor family, made 705 pounds of 

 butter in twelve consecutive months ; that Eurotas, of the Alphia family, 

 made 778 pounds of butter between November 12, 1879, and October 15, 

 1880, and dropped a heifer calf on November 4, 1880 ; that Pansy, sired 

 by Living Storm, dam Dolly 2d, sired by Emperor 2d, made in her four 

 year old form 574 pounds of butter in one year ; that imported Flora made 

 511 pounds of butter in fifty weeks; that Countess made 16 pounds of 

 butter on grass only, when fourteen 3'ears old. These well-established 

 facts no intelligent, fair-minded man now disputes, and it is confidently'' be- 

 lieved that many more Jerseys will make as much butter as have any of 

 those mentioned. 



The question which at once suggests itself to farmers who are not satis- 

 fied with their present animals, is that of capital. The answer is, " admit- 

 ting the above figures to be correct, I have no capital to pay the high prices 

 demanded for the best Jersey cows, and I must therefore forego "that im- 

 provement of my herd, which I know I ought to make." Let us see if 

 this is so. 



By any process of reasoning, the " bull is half the herd." Each cow con- 

 tributes to one calf each year half its qualities. The bull contributes to 

 every calf produced in the herd half its qualities. Some horse-breeders 

 will talk only of the excellences of the stallion. Some farmers will talk 

 only of the excellences of the cows. Both are mistaken. The sire and 



