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pics, since August. Mr. Robinson gives no account of Lis swine. 

 Each gentleman raised an equal number of calves from their 

 cows.* 



Upon carefully comparing the claims of Mr. Robinson and 

 Mr. Lincoln, the committee find that Mr. Robinson's dairy gave 

 a product, for the entire period of five months, in milk manu- 

 factured into cheese, inclusive of a few pounds of butter from 

 the milk of one day, of three hundred and forty-two dollars and 

 forty-eight cents. Mr. Lincoln's cows, in four months and 

 twenty-one days, in milk manufactured into butter, gave a 

 product of two hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty-three 

 cents, which for the remaining ten days, at the same average 

 rate, would have been increased to three hundred and six dol- 

 lars and seventy-five cents. 



The cows of each had about the same amount of green corn 

 fodder fed to them ; but Mr. Robinson states that his cows had 

 each two quarts of Indian meal per day through the season of 

 trial, having also been fed with provender the preceding win- 

 ter. The cows of Mr. Lincoln, by his account, had no meal or 

 provender at any time. 



In determining the profits of these respective dairies, the 

 committee are of opinion, that, admitting the pasturage and 

 corn fodder to have been equal, the extra expense of Indian 

 meal fed to the cows of Mr. Robinson should be deducted 

 from his account. Two quarts per day, for five months, would 

 give fifty-seven bushels and nine quarts, which, at the price the 



* In reference to the keeping of swine, as an accompaniment of the dairy, no 

 reference is made in this report, inasmuch as, from the omission of Mr. Robinson to 

 include such keeping in his statement, the committee had not the means of compar- 

 ison between the competitors. Mr. Lincoln states that he derived from this source 

 considerable profit. The committee cannot doubt that, by tbe whey of a cheese 

 dairy, or tbe buttermilk of a butter dairy, great advantages may result in the rais- 

 ing of swine. There is also much value in the skimmed milk of a butter dairy, 

 which may be applied to various domestic uses, or, near populous places, be readily 

 and fairly sold at its worth, and add sensibly to the net income of the concern. 

 The relative value of this refuse of the milk pan and the cheese press has never, to 

 the knowledge of the committee, been ascertained by actual trial ; but in any future 

 experiments, a fact so important in the economy of the farm should not be over- 

 looked. 



