100 LESSONS TN AGRICULTURE 



19. Suppose she gives 25 pounds of milk daily on 

 this ration. With milk at $1.20 per cwt, what is 

 gained ? 



20. Make a ration of clover hay and corn in the 

 same way and figure its cost. 



LESSON XXX 



THE DAIEY 



Dairy products. The products of the dairy are milk, 

 butter, and cheese. There is scarcely a man, woman, or 

 child in the civilized world who does not use every day 

 in some form the products of the dairy. The farmer who 

 has only one cow, and uses her milk for butter or for 

 drinking, has a dairy, but we usually think of dairies 

 as places where cows are kept in stables and fed all their 

 feed in mangers and milked to supply a city popula- 

 tion. However, most of the milk is produced on farms, 

 and a large part of the butter is made there also. The 

 use of the cream separator is increasing on the farm. 

 By this machine the cream is separated from the milk 

 soon after it is brought from the cow, and only the 

 cream need be hauled to the factory, if the farmer 

 is selling it. The cream separator enables the farmer 

 to get more butter than by any other method. 



Cleanliness. In the dairy the most important item 

 is cleanliness. There is probably no other item of food 

 more difficult to keep clean than milk. The dirt which 

 we eat in milk and butter would astonish us, if we 

 could see it separated. Good, pure, sweet milk is essen- 



