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9% per cent for the same montlis. Wlien not 

 competing for a prize his shrinkage was seven 

 pounds per cow in three months; when compet- 

 ing it was 2.6 poimds — a difference of 4.4 

 pounds. 



Losses from Poor Milk. — The difference be- 

 tween the poorest work of the winter of 1892 

 and 1893 and the best work of 1893 and 1894 

 rolls up in a way to frighten me and make me 

 doubt my own figures. The poorest work shows 

 a shrinkage of 9^^ pounds per cow in three 

 months, and the best work shows a shrinkage of 

 1.88 pounds per cow for the same length of 

 time. This difference is 7.62 pounds per cow 

 daily. I think it fair to suppose that the aver- 

 age difference of shrinkage for the three months 

 would be one-half as much as it was at the end 

 of the three months. This would be 3.81 pounds 

 per day for ninety days, or 343 pounds. 



Now we will suppose the shrinkage after the 

 three months is the same in both cases, and we 

 have 200 days at 7.62 poimds, or 1,524 pounds 

 plus 343 pounds equals 1,867 pounds per cow, 

 and for fifteen cows 28,005 pounds of milk, 

 which valued at $1 per hundred pounds would 

 amount to $280.05. I do not think this com- 

 parison is an exaggeration. I have supposed 

 that the shrinkage in both cases was alike after 

 the three months, which is not fair to the best 

 milker, as it is more than probable that the 



