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DAIRY FARMING 



VALUING CALVES. 



As a rule, calves from high-class cows are sold at prices 

 considerably below their actual value. This is so because 

 few dairymen appreciate the full value of calves from 

 high producers. Not until such calves have grown into 

 young cows is it possible to realize anywhere near their 

 full market value, and hence the wisdom of selling young 

 milch cows instead of calves. 



In the receipts from cows of different productive 

 capacities shown on page 245, the values assigned to the 

 calves from the higher producers are low as compared 

 with the market price of cows of similar productive 

 capacities. This is best shown by first calculating the 

 approximate cost of raising calves from cows of differ- 

 ent productive capacities, up to the time of dropping their 

 first calf, namely, two years old, as follows: 



