WINTER DAIRYING. 4ll 



of pure Jerseys of good butter stock and some cross bred 

 Jerseys and Ayrshires — whicli made the very best cows, 

 yielding from ten to twelve pounds of butter weekly — 

 were used in the dairy. When butter sells for fifty cents 

 a pound, it will pay to get the best cows, even at a cost 

 of $100 to $150 each. It will even pay when butter sells 

 for no more than thirty or thirty-five cents a pound to 

 have cows that yield ten pounds of butter weekly. The 

 cost of feeding cows in the winter is less than in the 

 summer; the labor is less, and other expenses of the dairy 

 are not so much as in summer. A cow then that yields 

 ten pounds of butter in winter at thirty cents a pound, 

 as compared with one that yields seven pounds at twenty 

 cents in summer, is 100 per cent in favor of the winter 

 dairy, and equal to $1.50 weekly. For the thirty or forty 

 weeks of the season this difference amounts to forty-five 

 or sixty dollars, which in one year pays the difference in 

 the value of the cow, leaving still a calf worth fifty dol- 

 lars as a bonus. It is an example of the truism that 

 "the best always pays the best," and this is most espe- 

 cially true in dairying, and more than ever in winter 

 butter making. 



The arrangement of the barn and yard should be such 

 as to reduce the labor as much as possible, and the sys • 

 tem adopted by the author, as described in previous 

 chapters, has been found convenient and economical in 

 every respect. There are no foolish whims about it, no 

 coddling or fussing over the cows, and nothing but what 

 is indispensable in a working dairy carried on for profit 

 and not for show. Excessive warmth is not conducive to 

 robustness, health or profit. One may learn how this is 

 himself. If a man's house is kept closed up and heated 

 with stoves to a temperature of eiglity degrees, and his 

 food and drink are all taken hot with a vicAV to prevent- 

 ing the effects of the cold and to insure more comfort, 

 the dwellers in that house will become sick or diseased — 



