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to fatten 4 cwts. or more of veal per annum ; and this at 

 the price of 41. per cwt. would yield 16L annually per cow. 

 From this, however, must be deducted the cost of whatever 

 other food the calves consume, and also a certain sum at 

 which the risk attending the management of young stock 

 must he valued a risk which does not accompany the other 

 modes of turning milk into money. 



It may thus be assumed, after making sundry deductions, 

 that 24L, 20Z., 18?., and perhaps 16L may be taken as the 

 produce of well-managed cows, in milk, butter, cheese, 

 and veal respectively ; the value of the calf, 30s. or 35s., 

 when a week or ten days old, has to be added. It will, 

 however, be generally felt that, excepting, perhaps, the 

 first of these cases, these figures stand too high for 

 ordinary experience ; and certainly that which is true of 

 well-managed individual cows is not necessarily true of a 

 whole herd, however perfect the management may be. In 

 illustration of this, two facts may be mentioned, one of 

 which entirely corroborates our estimate ; but the other, 

 the more trustworthy of the two, considerably discounts 

 it. 1. The dairy statistics of 15 farms in Gloucestershire 

 already referred to (pp. 10, 12, 16), prove that in the year 

 of their collection 439 cows produced 1604 cwts. of cheese ; 

 5268 Ibs. of milk-butter, 11,420 Ibs. of whey-butter, 

 besides a sale of 354 calves and of 1756 score Ibs. of bacon. 

 The total sales at present prices would stand thus : 



s. d. 



1,604 cwts. of cheese, at 3 4s 4,84416 



5, 268 Ibs. of butter, at Is. 4^ 351 4 



11,420 Ibs. of whey butter, at Is. . . . 571 



354 calves, at 1 5s 442 10 



1,756 scores of bacon, at 10s 878 



439 cows produced 7,087 10 



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