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tablished results as possible, and where anything 

 must be left to conjecture, always being careful to 

 ^rr on the safe side of the calculation. A farmer 

 wishes to commence a dairy with ten good cows, 

 not herd-book stock, but good native animals. The 

 price of cows for several years past, in the spring of 

 the year, has varied from 18 to 22 dollars — we will 

 call it 20 — thus making the cost of his cows 200 dol- 

 lars. For pasturing, it is generally estimated that 

 two acres to each cow will be required ; and it may 

 be so, as pastures are generally laid down ; but 

 where the turf is clean and close, and the soil in 

 good heart, we are confident something less will suf- 

 fice to give them every advantage. The interest on 

 the twenty acres required for six months, the time 

 the dairy will be in operation, at 30 dollars per acre, 

 wiU be 21 dollars. The interest on the money in- 

 vested in cows will be seven dollars. A dairy-maid, 

 if one is required, for six months, at a dollar per 

 week, is twenty-six dollars. The expense, then, 

 will stand thus : 



10 cows, at 920 each .... $200 00 



Interest on do. six months ... 7 00 



Interest on two acres to each cow . 21 00 



Dairy-maid six months ... 26 GO 



Total expense . . . §254 00 



If it be a cheese-dairy, much will dupend, as to the 

 receipts, on the quality of the milk and the skill 

 shown in making. The quantity of c'vieese produced 

 varies greatly in different dairies ; and in estimating 

 profits, a medium rate must be selected. ^Ir. Brown, 

 of Otsego county, made from thirteen cows 4700 lbs. 

 of clieese, or 361 lbs. to each cow. Mr. E. Perkins, 

 of Trenton, Oneida county, from 78 cows made 

 32,000 lbs., or 410 lbs. to each cow ; and in his com- 

 munication he slates that the dairies in that cheese- 

 making region vary from 400 to 500 lbs. to a cow. 

 Some experience in the dairy business, and familiar 



