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of milk, and used in my family forty-nine pounds, leaving- five 

 thousand two hundred and fifty-one pounds, from which I made 

 four hundred and sixty-seven pounds of cheese and ten pounds 

 of butter. The night's milk was set in tubs over night, and 

 the cream taken off in the morning,- the milk was then made 

 into cheese with the morning's milk, the twenty-four cows mak- 

 ing a cheese weighing. sixty-seven pounds per day, which is two 

 and three-quarters pounds to a cow, and taking eleven pounds 

 of milk to one pound of cheese, weighing the cheese at twenty- 

 eight days old. One gallon of milk will make a pound of 

 cheese from the press. My cheese nets me nine and a half 

 cents per pound, and butter twenty cents per pound. 



467 pounds of cheese, at 9J cents per pound, . $44 36 

 10 pounds of butter, at 20 cents per pound, . 2 00 



$46 36 



Making the income of each cow one dollar and ninety-two cents 

 per week, or twenty-seven and a half cents per day. 



I milked from the twenty-four cows in seven days, the first 

 week in September, three thousand three hundred and sixty 

 pounds of milk, and made three hundred and thirty-six pounds 

 of cheese and ten pounds of butter — ten pounds of milk to one 

 of cheese. 



336 pounds of cheese, at 9 J cents per pound, . $32 02 



10 pounds of butter, at 20 cents per pound, . 2 00 



$34 02 



making one dollar and forty-one cents per week, or twenty 

 cents per day, to each cow. 



The six cows I offer for premium were selected from my 

 dairy of twenty-four cows. I commenced the first week in 

 June and September, and weighed the milk seven days in suc- 

 cession. 



