96 THE DAIRY OF THE FARM. 



The most profitable use of Milk. This necessarily 

 depends altogether on the market. (1.) To sell the whole 

 milk direct to the consumer is probably the most 

 profitable method. One penny a pint is a common whole- 

 sale price to the cow keeper. His cows may yield under 

 varying treatment from 600 to 1000 gallons annually, and 

 thus return from 20Z. to 33/. annually a-piece. (2.) To 

 make milk into butter and skim-milk cheese, may, at the 

 yield of 600 gallons annually, and calculating 22 pints per 

 Ib. of butter and 1J gallon per Ib. of skim milk cheese, 

 yield as follows : 



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600 gallons of milk = 60 gallons of cream = 210 Ibs. of 



butter, &tls. 4d 14 



540 gallons of skim-milk = 360 Ibs. of cheese, at 4d. per Ib. 6 



Total annual yield per cow .... 20 



(3.) To make milk wholly into cheese may, with a yield 

 of 600 gallons of milk, result in 5 cwts. of cheese per 

 annum; a very unusual produce, however; and this at 64s. 

 per cwt., a moderate price, results in an annual produce of 

 <16 per cow, to which must be added, perhaps, 50s. worth 

 of butter and bacon, or 13 10s. in all. The more common 

 produce, however, is : 



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4 cwts. at 64.9 12 6 



Together with the extras 2 10 



Or, in all 15 6 per cow. 



(4.) To use the milk wholly for fatting veal, at the rate 

 of 10, 16, 20, 24, 27, 30, and 32 gallons in seven succes- 

 sive weeks, using 160 gallons or thereabouts in that time 

 for producing about 1 cwt. of veal, will enable each cow thus 



