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AMERICAN DAIRYING. 



TABLE III. MILK FROM SECOND DAIRY 



Unimproved opportunities. Why more 

 dairymen do not improve this opportunity to 

 help themselves I am at a loss to understand. 

 No manufacturer could withstand the compe- 

 tition he has to contend with if he left unim- 

 proved opportunities like many dairymen are 

 leaving in not testing and knowing what their 

 individual cows are doing for them. With the 

 Babcock test it is a very simple matter to tell 

 what each cow is doing at any time, and there 

 is now no excuse for a dairyman's not know- 

 ing just where each individual cow stands. 



In the estimate we have made we find that 

 it requires 190 Ibs. of butter and the skim-milk 

 to pay for feed, labor and interest. This being 

 a fact we must have cows that will make at 



