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BULLETIN 409 



All charges for the use of the milk wagon, cans, and other equipment 

 used in hauling milk, were included under dairy equipment, rather than 

 under milk hauling. The charge, therefore, includes no expense for use 

 of equipment. When the farmer hired his milk hauled, the money paid 

 was considered the cost of hauling. Whenever a combination of methods 

 was used, the cost was found by adding the cash cost to the farmer's labor 

 charge for hauling. 



At the rates used in this study, human labor made up 29.8 per cent, 

 horse labor 44.5 per cent, and cash paid 25.7 per cent, of the cost of hauling 

 the milk. Milk-hauling charges made up 8.2 per cent of the total charges 

 to the enterprise. Of the total time spent, only 14.8 per cent was in 

 cooperation with neighbors. 



The figures for milk-hauling costs are given in table 8. 



Use of buildings 



Values at the beginning and at the end of the year, of the silos, milk 

 houses, ice houses, and those parts of the barns and other buildings used 

 by dairy cattle, or in storing all feed except dry forage used by them, are 

 given in table 9 : 



TABLE 9. VALUE OF BUILDINGS, 2058 Cows, 1002 HEIFERS, 172 HERD BULLS, AND 



76 BULLS TO BE SOLD 



Average value, $145,714. 

 Increase in value, $1,936. 



* Includes 9 silos built in barns. 



The average of these values was $145,714, or about $978 per farm. 

 During the year six new silos were erected, so that at the end of the year 

 about 40 per cent of the farms had silos not built inside the barns. The 

 number of silos does not agree with the number of farms feeding silage, 

 for the reason that on some farms the silos were built in the barns and were 

 included with the value of the barn. Most of the farms have milk houses 

 separate from the barns, and 64 per cent have separate ice houses, altho 



