PROFIT FROM THE DAIRY I4I 



complete apparatus for churning and handling 

 butter upon my farm. Some of the best butter- 

 makers are now obtaining 5 pounds of butter for 

 each hundred pounds of milk. Even if I can only- 

 secure 4j^ pounds per hundred pounds of milk, I 

 figure that I can secure as great cash returns as 

 though the milk were sold upon the market, and 

 have left as clear gain the skim milk, which I shall 

 utilize in feeding calves and pigs. 



"Four and one-half pounds of butter, which 

 ought to bring 30 cents per pound, amounts to 

 $1.35, or within 5 cents per hundred pounds of my 

 last year's average for market milk. The by- 

 product in the form of skim milk retained upon the 

 farm and fed to young stock ought to increase the 

 profits by one-half. In addition to this we will be 

 spared the labor and expense of making daily de- 

 liveries of the large bulk of the milk output. 



"I think it is probably true that the distributor 

 exacts too great a profit, yet I am sure that the 

 ultimate success of the dairy industry does not 

 depend so much upon boosting the price as it does 

 upon the development of more intelligent methods 

 of dairying. The percentage of profit or loss from 

 dairying operations in this county is pretty accu- 

 rately measured by the degree of skill and special 

 management which the individual dairyman de- 

 votes to his business." 



INDIRECT RESULTS OF DAIRYING 



The economical handling of manure produced by 

 dairy animals for the enrichment of the soil is by 

 no means the least important consideration in de- 

 termining the merits of the industry. The soil of 

 exclusive dairy sections is usually very rich after 



