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THE ESSENTIALS OF AGRICULTURE 



Dairying furnishes immediate and constant returns, and is 

 adapted to farmers with small capital as well as to those with 

 large capital. The price of milk and of butter fat is never subject 

 to great fluctuations, but is more steady and uniform than the 

 price of most other farm products. Keeping dairy cows on the 



FIG. 177. A lady of quality 



The Holstein cow, " K. P. Pontiac Lass," made a world's seven-day butter record by 

 producing 44.15 pounds of butter. She was sold for #10,000 and was the mother of a 

 bull which brought $15,000. She was bred and developed by Mr. Francis M. Jones of 

 Clinton, New York, who at the age of 22 years, with scanty means and under great 

 opposition from his relatives and neighbors, began raising pure-bred stock 



farm furnishes employment the year round, and this enables 

 the farmer to get a better class of farm labor. 



456. The dairy herd. The first essential for profitable dairying 

 is good cows. The profitable dairy cow is one that will make 

 the maximum production on the minimum quantity of food. 

 Frequently, good milk cows are found among ordinary scrub 

 cattle or among beef breeds, but such cows are not so likely to 

 transmit their milking qualities to their offspring as are the cows 



