LARGER DAIRIES 



milking cows producing at least 100 quarts of 

 milk daily means a volume of business which 

 may just pay expenses. A smaller business than 

 this may mean a loss, unless dairying is incidental 

 to other kinds of farming. 



The advantage of the big dairy as compared 

 with the small dairy is shown by the following 

 table, which gives the cost of producing milk on 

 85 Connecticut farms arranged in groups accord- 

 ing to the number of cows in the dairy herd. 



EIGHTY-FIVE HERDS IN CONNECTICUT 



(OF COWS AVERAGING OVER 6000 POUNDS EACH PER YEAR) 



From the above table it is clear that if farm- 

 ers were receiving 5 cents a quart for milk, 

 those dairymen with herds containing less than 

 20 cows would be losing money, while dairymen 

 with herds containing more than 20 cows would 

 make money. 



