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Expences and Profits of a Dairy. By Algernon Roberts. 



Read April 14th, 1807. 



[Mr, Roberts having been requested by the Agricultural 

 Society of Merion and Blockly townships Philadelphia 

 County J to favour them with a statement of the expences 

 and profits of his dairy ^ presented the following account. 

 It was afterwards presented by Mr. Roberts^ to the Agri- 

 cultural Society of Philadelphia. As the quantity of land 

 which sustained his cows^ was not mentioned^ the Society 

 requested information on that head^ arid received in conse* 

 quencey the letter subjoined to the following paper. ~\ 



Agreeably to the request of the Society, I lay before 

 them, an account of the butter, I sold from a dairy of 

 twenty cows, during eight years viz : from 1st Janu- 

 ary 1796 to 3 1st December 1803. The weight amount- 

 ed to 27835 pounds, being an annual average of 3479 

 pounds, or 173 pounds to each cow^ per year. 

 Cash received for butter sold from 20 



cows in 8 years, . . . !g 8276 19 



Consumed in family the milk of 3 ditto, 1506 

 Sucking pigs estimated at - - 320 



17 cwt. of pork at S 6 per cwt. sustained 



by dairy, - - - . . 816 



20 calves at % 4 each^ - - * 640 



11558 19 

 7748 



8)3810 19 



476 



