28 THE dairyman's MAKTTAL. 



to improve his herd by introducing pedigree blood. 

 Every inferior cow when found out, he said, should have 

 its head cut off, and not be turned away indiscriminately 

 to cheat and cause loss to other dairymen. No matter 

 how renowned its pedigree, let it go to the shambles or 

 to the beef producer, but not to the dairyman. Harris 

 Lewis facetiously urged at the same convention, that any 

 dairyman having a poor milker would make money by 

 giving her away, and if he had scruples in this regard, 

 "he might make a present of the beast to his mother-in- 

 law." 



^ome years ago one of the best dairymen in Herkimer 

 County, New York, desiring to ascertain the profit he 

 was realizing from difierent cows in his herd, instituted a 

 series of tests. He had found from actual experiment 

 that the average cost of keeping his dairy stock through 

 the year was at the rate of thirty-five dollars per head, 

 and this sum was embraced under the following items: 



Two and a half tons of hay at eight dollars per ton. .820 00 



Pasturage during the season 7 50 



Two hundred pounds ground feed in spring 8 00 



Interest on cost of cow at forty -five dollars, and de- 

 preciation, ten per cent 4 50 



Making, per cow, a total of $35 00 



Now selecting five of his best cows and five of his 

 poorest cows, and measuring the quantity of milk on cer- 

 tain days of the mouth during the season, he found that 

 the five best cows yielded five hundred and fifty-four gal- 

 lons of milk each, which realized, in butter and cheese 

 sold at market rates, an average for the season of eleven 

 and a half cents per gallon, or a total of sixty-three dollars 

 and eleven cents per cow. This gave him, after deduct- 

 ing cost of keep, twenty-eight dollars and seventy-one 

 cents per cow, clear profit. 



On the other hand, the five poorest cows yielded onU 



