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UTILIZATION OF LABOR BY DAIRYING 



calculate the amount and market value of feeds consumed by 

 cattle, but the fact remains that a considerable quantity of the 

 stuff eaten throughout the year could not have been sold except 

 through some form of livestock and therefore had no market 

 value. The labor of caring for stock naturally should be 

 charged against the income from the animal, but when such work 

 is performed by the growing family who must be maintained in 

 any case, to charge the animal would require a crediting of the 

 system by an equal amount. Time is more fully utilized on 



Fig. 6. — A Minnesota farm homo in which a family of useful citizens was raised. 





stock farms, especially on dairy farms (Fig. 6). Mornings, 

 evenings, Sundays and holidays employed productively, even 

 though at a moderate rate, are sure in time to amount to a con- 

 siderable item. These are part of the indirect incomes or sources 

 of profit derived from the employment of livestock, and this is 

 more intensely true when the cattle employed are of the dairy 

 sort, thus admitting of more labor and the consumption of a 

 larger proportionate amount of coarse fodder. 



Regulation of Farm Labor. — Most of the farms of this 



