$469 00 



Thus it will be seen, that the proprietor of the cow and land 

 obtains about eight and one third per cent, clear ])roJit^ or say 

 fourteen per cent, for the use of the money invested, a dividend 

 equal, in amount, to that derived from stocks less fanciful, but 

 too frequently fancied by the farmer, to his injury. 



The difficulty former committees have experienced in obtain- 

 ing information respecting entire dairies, induced the chairman 

 to address several farmers, who, in years past, have entered 

 cows for premium, for facts relating to their own dairies, and 

 those of their neighbors. In reply, A. B. says, " I feel very 

 much mortified, that I cannot furnish you with the particulars 

 in regard to my cows. This is a subject of vast importance to 

 the farmers of the county. We are keeping cows from year to 

 year, not knowing the annual products from one cow, and, in 

 a majority of cases, are not able to tell if there is any dif- 

 ference at all in our stock. These things ought not so to be. 

 The endeavors to get the whys and wherefores of good cows, so 

 far as the cattle-show has been concerned, are all frustrated ; 

 they are all animals of accident^ so that we have no credit, as 

 we do not breed them. We can make it profitable to breed ; it 

 would be the very best business done on the farm." C. D. says, 

 "I have milked 35 cows during the months of June, July, Au- 

 gust, and September, and have sold the milk ; whole amount, 

 32,648 quarts, being an average of each cow's milk, per day, of 

 about 7f quarts." 



If the above-named cows had given, on the average for the 

 four best months of the year, 12 quarts per day, the owner 

 would have added to his income about $300, or a sum sufficient 

 to purchase ten cows ; — a striking illustration of the need of 

 improvement. 



