54 



Amount ot Milk. 

 112 1 



Quarts per day. 

 1 I 2 I 



Total. I 2102 I 



3000 



3565 



Average amount per day during whole time : — No. 1, 6.2 ; 

 No. 2, 8.5; No. 3, 9.4. The milk was sold at wholesale 

 and actually brought, — No. 1, $52.47; No. 2, $79.71; No. 

 3, $97.57. The keeping in each case was precisely alike and 

 consisted of a few roots or shorts, with as much hay and 

 other fodder as they would eat ; — during the summer months 

 nothing but good pasture. It was thought at the time that 

 Cow No. 1 barely paid the cost of keeping and a fair interest 

 on her market value. Taking this for granted, then No. 3 

 paid a profit over cost of keeping — sufficient to buy a good 

 cow at that time. 



Dr. Loomis, in a paper published in the Patent Office Re- 

 port of 1861, estimates the average annual amount of milk 

 produced over a large extent of territory, at only 1800 quarts 

 per cow. If this is correct, or even if 2100 quarts per year 

 be the average, then it follows that many farmers are making 

 milk at little or no profit. It also follows that, with better 

 stock, the same expense in keeping will yield a larger return 

 than in almost any other branch of agriculture. Doubtless it 

 is practically impossible for all to obtain extra cows ; but 

 when fiirmers are convinced that they cannot afford to keep a 

 medium cow, the demand for better stock will Increase, and 

 the supply will increase with the demand. Another impor- 



