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TABLE 1. 



Annual amount of Cost of 



Milk Butter Milk Butter 



Boston Cans Pounds j3er can. per lb. 



Jersey, 285 265 18.8 14.5 



Ayrshire, 320 275 16.8 15.0 



Durham, 333 265 18.0 17.7 



BEST COW OF EACH BREED. 



Cans Pounds Per cow 

 Jei-sey, 375 330 13.5 cents 



Ayrshire, 415 340 13.2 " 



Durham, 530 455 12.3 " 



First, a word about the cost of keeping a cow weighing 

 1000 lbs. The part of this table No. 1, that is most inter- 

 esting, is that showing what the best cow can do, and while 

 we cannot all have this best cow, still she is the one to take 

 for a pattern, and then come as near her as possible. 



The second table shows figures giving the value of pro- 

 duct over and above cost of keeping, and it gives us some 

 ideas as to the place where each breed should be placed, 

 whether as a milk })roducer or a butter i)roducer. It will 

 pay the dairyman to study this table a little. 



The first column of figures shoAvs the value of the milk 

 produced by our herd for 6 years at 22 cents per can, 

 A\ hich is the average price on the milk car as nearly as I 

 can figure it. The second column shows the value of the 

 butter at 22 cents per pound, which is what the creameries 

 of New Hampshire average to pay, plus the value of the 

 skim milk at 25 cents per hundred pounds ; and from these 

 values is taken the cost of keeping. This leaves us what 

 we call profit. 



