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pounds of milk when feeding mixed hay 71 pounds 

 of mixed hay, 26 pounds of corn meal, 36 pounds of 

 wheat bran. Food required for 100 pounds of butter 

 when feeding mixed hay 1348 pounds of mixed hay, 

 500 pounds of corn meal, 700 pounds of wheat bran. 

 Food required for 100 pounds of milk when feeding 

 clover hay 60 pounds of clover hay, 26 pounds of corn 

 meal, 37 pounds of wheat bran. Food required for 100 

 pounds of butter when feeding clover hay 1179 pounds 

 of clover hay, 513 pounds of corn meal, 718 pounds of 

 wheat bran. 



From the data here given one can easily calculate the 

 cost of food necessary to produce one hundred pounds of 

 milk or butter. Supposing hay is worth $8 per ton, then 

 the corn-stalks would be worth $2.66, or one-third the value 

 of the hay, as shown by these experiments. Suppose fur- 

 ther that bran can be had for $12, and corn meal for $15 

 per ton assuming these prices, we will find that the food 

 necessary to produce one hundred pounds of milk costs* 

 as the average of the before detailed experiments, about 

 sixty-six cents, and the food to produce one hundred 

 pounds of butter costs about $12.84. 



With these facts and those of experiments before us, let 

 us attempt to estimate the butter that can be produced from 

 an acre of corn land. 



For this purpose let us assume that 4,491 pounds of ears 

 from an acre would make 4,000 pounds of corn meal, 

 allowing for shrinkage and grinding about twenty per 

 cent, which is fully enough for corn as dry as this at 

 husking. 



Now most farmers would be unwilling to trade a ton of 

 corn meal for a ton of bran, but let us substitute bran for 

 corn meal, pound for pound in part, so as to have seven 

 pounds of bran for each five of corn meal. The two tons 



