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for prices between 40 and 24 cents per can, or 4.7 and 2.8 

 cents per quart : — 



From the records obtained by the Lyndeboro Cow Test 

 Association it seems clear that a mature cow to be profitable 

 must produce 6,000 to 8,000 pounds of milk per year, de- 

 pending upon the price obtained. Since this amount is con- 

 siderably above the average production, a large number of the 

 dairy cows in New Hampshire are apparently kept at a loss. 



Cost of Production under Average Conditions. 



The last census report shows the average production of 

 milk per cow in Massachusetts to be 4,524 pounds; in New 

 Hampshire, 3,775 pounds; in Vermont, 3,982 pounds. No 

 doubt the actual production in the several States is higher 

 than this. In the writer's opinion a more nearly correct 

 estimate is between 5,000 and 5,500 pounds of milk. 



To get conditions which will represent average production 

 for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont let us take 

 the 39 cows of the 26 herds studied producing between 5,000 

 and 6,000 pounds with an average production of 5540 pounds 

 of milk. 



The cost of production will be as follows : — 



All items of expense as given on page 5 will be the same, 

 except the cost of feed, the cost of delivering the milk to 

 the station and the Cow Test Association expenses. These 

 three items represent a difference of $6.12 for the cost of the 

 feed, $1.02 for the delivery and $1.40 for the Cow Test 



