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would be necessary, while the cream should 

 be extracted at the rate of 10 per cent. This 

 should be thick enough for any ordinary 

 purpose if the milk is rich in fat, and a gallon 

 would thus yield a pound, or four-fifths of 

 a pint, which weighs 20 oz. The best cream 

 is retailed at 2s. a pint, but if it were sold at 

 Is. 6d. it would pay extremely well, for it 

 will be noticed that the offal, or separated 

 milk, would be available for calves or pigs, or 

 it might be sold at 3d. to 4d. per gallon. On 

 these terms the price obtained for the milk 

 would exceed Is. 2d. a gallon. 



Butter-making we should scarcely recom- 

 mend upon so small a farm. Assuming, how- 

 ever, that the cows were yielding 2| gallons 

 per day, or in all 5 gallons, and that the 

 butter produced reached 2 lb., the daily 

 returns, on the supposition that the butter 

 realised Is. 2d. per lb., would reach 2s. 4d., 

 or with the separated milk, if this were sold 

 at 3d. per gallon — about 4 gallons in quantity 

 — 3s. 4d. In some instances skimmed milk 

 will fetch Id. to l|d. a quart, but its sale 

 at these prices can never be guaranteed, 

 and the remark equally applies to butter, 

 which, owing to close competition, might 

 sometimes fail to reach the price suggested. 



