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Value of skim-milk. — We will allow $10 per 

 cow for the skim-milk and we have a balance 

 of $40 to be paid for by the butter before we 

 have any profit. We will suppose as much 

 butter is made in winter as summer, in which 

 case the average price after paying for making 

 at the creamery will be about 21 cents per 

 pound. Now it will require 190 lbs. of butter 

 at 21 cents per pound to balance the $40 and 

 leave us whole. In this case the cow that 

 makes 190 lbs. of butter per year does not make 

 us any profit. In my experience I find no profit 

 in a 200-lb. cow. I might have 100 of them on 

 my farm and not make $250 per year on the 

 whole lot of them. 



Man, horse and cow. — Now please tell what 

 is the sense in keeping such cows ? We would 

 not keep a horse that could only do work enough 

 to pay for feed, neither would we keep a man 

 who could only do enough to pay for his board. 

 But yet most of us keep a dairy of cows one- 

 fourth of which actually run us in debt. There 

 is no excuse for this at this period of the dairy 

 work. Before the introduction of the Babcock 

 test there was some excuse for a dairyman not 

 knowing what each individual cow was doing 

 for him, though even then there was not suffi- 

 cient excuse for this condition, as the cows 

 could be tested by the churn. That required a 

 great amount of work, but it paid. 



