DAIRYING. 



Monthly Summary of Preceding Table, 

 Cow No. 32. 



*Creamery price which was one half cent under the average Elgin market price for the month 

 at that time. 



This shows the method by which the total milk and butter fat 

 production is obtained and the way in which its cash value may 

 be figured. 



Variations in the Test of Milk. 



The daily tests of the milk show to what extremes the milk of 

 one cow will vary from day to day, a difference of one-half of one 

 per cent, and occasionally even more than one per cent, being noticed 

 on some days. This is shown by these records for August, Novem- 

 ber, December and June. Such variations, however, tend to equalize 

 each other from day to day, and milk of unusual richness is gener- 

 ally followed by exceptionally thin milk, so that the average rich- 

 ness of the two lots comes near to the normal quality that the cow 

 produces. This daily variation in milk is much more striking in 

 some cows than in others, even in a herd having the same feed 

 and care ; it seems to depend largely on the health and more or less 

 excitable temperament of a cow, nervous cows showing a much 

 greater tendency to unevenness in the quality of their milk than 

 cows of a quiet disposition. 



