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PROFITABLE STOCK RAISING 



Never before has the importance of cutting out 

 and disposing of the unprofitable cows from the 

 herd been more prominent than at the present time. 

 It is not a difiScult matter to determine whether a 

 herd is profitable or not or whether any individual 

 in the herd is profitable. It can be readily seen 

 that if a man has three cows which produce enough 

 milk to pay a liberal margin of profit over the 



MODERN DAIRY HOUSE 



amount of feed they receive, and three others, 

 which give an equal amount less than the value of 

 their feed, the deficiency of the latter three simply 

 balances the good qualities of the former three, and 

 eliminates any possible profit from the whole herd. 

 The three poor producers not only do not pay for 

 their own board, but are dependent upon the good 

 qualities of the profitable three in order to make 

 the books balance. In order to determine which 

 individuals are boarders and which are dividend 

 payers, it is only necessary to weigh each day the 

 milk of each cow, and to occasionally test for butter 



