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and it is all down on a " pass-book." Here are the figures for one 

 hundred days past : 



Dr. 



850 Ibs. bale Hay, at $22 per ton $9 35 



1.000 Ibs. Corn Meal, at $1.35 per 100 Ibs 13 50 



400 Ibs. Bran, at $1.30 per 100 Ibs 5 20 



200 Ibs. Fine Feed, " Shorts," at $1.55 per 100 Ibs. .. 3 10 



20 bundles of bedding Straw, at lOc 2 00 



Paid man for care and milking, $1 per week 14 30 



Total expenses for 100 days .$47 45 



Or. 



1,200 Quarts of best milk (12 quarts per day) at 7c. . ..$84 00 

 Money profit in 100 days $36 55 



Or, to put it in another way, the six hundred quarts sold actually 

 brought in forty-two dollars cash, and the entire six hundred 

 quarts used at home cost five dollars and forty-five cents. The 

 cow cost, say, sixty-five dollars. The entire care, -which was not 

 paid in the surplus of milk above twelve quarts per day, is charged 

 in the expenses above. The manure produced, if sold, would 

 more than meet interest on the cost of cow, and any depreciation in 

 value by increasing age. Allow the above average to be kept up 

 only two hundred days in a year, and at the end of that time sup- 

 pose the cow is sold for half price (thirty-two dollars and fifty 

 cents), and a fresh one substituted, there would still be a gain of 

 forty dollars and sixty cents for two hundred days, or for a year a 

 profit of seventy-four dollars and ten cents. 



With good feed the sixty-five dollar cow will keep up a full 

 supply of milk at least twenty-six weeks, and then be worth forty 

 dollars for continued milking and breeding. Sell her then and buy 

 another fresh cow for sixty-five dollars a loss of fifty dollars a 

 year. The above liberal allowance of forty-seven dollars and 

 forty-five cents for feed and care one hundred clays, amounts to 

 one hundred and seventy-three dollars and nineteen cents a year. 

 Adding the loss of fifty dollars for purchasing two fresh cows, 

 makes the total annual expense two hundred and twenty-three 

 dollars and nineteen cents. This would make the supply of milk, 

 twelve quarts a day (four thousand three hundred and eighty 

 quarts), cost about five cents a quart, or not quite fifty-one cents 

 for ten quarts. This is not an exaggerated estimate for a sixty- 

 five dollar cow, renewed every twenty-six weeks. The feed and 



