tLLll^OlS gtAtte DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATlOisr. 26l 



Only 21.5 pounds of milk to i pound of butter, but consumed 

 20.6 fodder units to do it. 



Is not the moral of all this: ''Use the scale and the test for 

 a ivhole year on each cozv, if yo7i want to produce milk {butter fat') 

 at a profit.'' 



Farmer A produced butter at a loss of 1.06 cents per pound 

 and no doubt had been convinced that "dairying don't pay." 

 Perchance he thought the trouble lay in politics or in freight 

 rates, but even if these evils were existent, how many cents per 

 pound do you think it would influence the market.'^ 



But let us, on the other hand, imagine that lightning or the 

 butcher had struck down twenty-one out of the forty-one cows 

 on farm A, and see what the average cost of production would 

 have been.? 



Just 18.4 cents per pound, giving a profit of 4.82 cents per 

 pound, instead of a loss of 1.06 cents. 



The fallacy of averages are pretty well shown up in Table 

 III. The total average cost of production from the thirteen 

 farms is slightly, below the average sales price, and yet if we 

 examine the averages for each individual farm, we find that on 

 five farms it exceeds the selling price with from 0.71 to 1.77 

 cents per pound. 



TABLE III.— AVERAGE PER COW. 



o 

 j-i 

 <a 



^ si 



A 41 



B 24 



C 21 



D 17 



E 17 



P : 16 



G 14 



H 12 



I 12 



J 11 



K 8 



L 5 



M 2 



Total average 15.4 







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w <u 



o . 









3 



H 





^fi 





1 



a; 







Sfi 



O be . • 



< 



pq 





ta 





O 13 rj 



7.17 



^;4is 



198.5 



3999 



27.3 



20.15 



24..3a 



7.2 



(:.121 



228.0 



4703 



26.76 



20.56 



24.99 



6.62 



6784 



244.6 



4368 



27.73 



17.85 



21.5.:! 



5.06 



7116 



263.8 



4667 



26.97 



17.69 



21.34 



7.8 



6134 



211.7 



4051 



28.98 



19.13 



23.08 



5.81 



b3^3 



239.5 



4331 



26.39 



18.08 



2175 



7.14 



7567 



284.5 



4988 



26.59 



17.53 



21.15 



7.9 



6615 



237.5 



4778 



27.82 



20.09 



24.21 



7.4 



6710 



233.5 



4634 



28.73 



19.84 



23.9;; 



6.7 



6437 



232.8 



4307 



27.64 



18.49 



22.3 



7.3 



5478 



206.9 



4228 



26.47 



20.43 



24.65 



5.0 



7053 



243.2 



4785 



28.99 



19.66 



23.72 



8.0 



7021 



251.0 



4385 



26.65 



17.45 



21.05 



6338 



231 



4413 



27.41 



19.08 



23.02 



