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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



$10 00 

 21 60 



$0 05 

 05 

 02 



Cost of a Dairy Cow. 



August, calf, 



Three months, milk, 12 pounds, at 2 cents, 



Hay, 6 pounds, .... 



Grain, 3 pounds, 



Turnij^s, 1 peck, .... 



6 months X 30 = 180 days X • 

 6 months, pasture, .... 

 6 moiitlis, barn, at 17 cents per day, . 

 6 months, pasture, .... 

 3 months, barn, at 22 cents per day, 

 2y2 years labor, 



$114 60 



For various reasons, tlirce of which T will mention, cows 

 are nsnally sold for much less than the actual cost of rais- 

 ing : — 



1. Because there is something wrong with them. 



2. Because the one who raised them does not know the cost 

 of raising them. 



3. Because the owner had to sell, on account of poverty. 

 Those of the first case are as useless to the buyer as to the 



seller. In the second place, probably no attention was paid 

 to the quality of the sire. The country is full of scrub service 

 bulls, and it is very doubtful if many of this class would show 

 any profit in the dairy. In the third case they will probably 

 soon be on the market again, for the same cause. 



Breeding dairy cows for the market is losing business. 

 Breeding them for one's own dairy is indispensable. But the 

 demand for dairy cows is rapidly increasing, and the market 

 price this fall approximates the cost of raising. 



Value of a Cow. 



1 Three times yearly profit, plus $25 for carcass. 



