LARGER DAIRIES 8 
milking cows producing at least 100 quarts of 
milk daily means a volume of business which 
may just pay expenses. A smaller business than 
this may mean a loss, unless dairying is incidental 
to other kinds of farming. 
The advantage of the big dairy as compared 
with the small dairy is shown by the following 
table, which gives the cost of producing milk on 
85 Connecticut farms arranged in groups accord- 
ing to the number of cows in the dairy herd. 
EIGHTY-FIVE HERDS IN CONNECTICUT 
(OF COWS AVERAGING OVER 6000 POUNDS EACH PER YEAR) 
Cost of Producing 
Number cf Herds.; Cows in Herd. MS Quart. 
ents. 
13 7-10 5.92 
45 10-20 5-45 
21 20-30 4.97 
6 30-40 4.65 
From the above table it is clear that if farm- 
ers were receiving 5 cents a quart for milk, 
those dairymen with herds containing less than 
20 cows would be losing money, while dairymen 
with herds containing more than 20 cows would 
make money. 
