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good care of cattle, he was glad to hear discussed. He 

 thought the more care we gave cattle the more we would 

 get out of them. Kindness to them would bring its 

 reward. He was pleased to see the ladies out. This sub- 

 ject of home was a good one to discuss. We must not for- 

 get as we were traveling through this world that we had a 

 social nature as well as a physical nature that needed culti- 

 vation. 



The secretary then read the following paper on '' The 

 Food Value of the Milk Product of the United States," 

 prepared by G. P. Lord, of Elgin : 



G. P. LORD'S PAPER. 



*' Three and one-half pounds of milk possess the same 

 amount of nutrition that is contained in one pound of 

 boneless beef " — WillarcVs Dairy Htisbandry, p. ij. 



" Every fat ox gives 57.7 per cent, of butcher's meat, 

 including bones, to every 100 pounds live weight." — Ency- 

 clopedia Britannica, 8th ed., vol. g, p. '/62. ** About 12^ 

 per cent, of such meat is bone." — Same zvork, p. ^62. Con- 

 sequently 50 per cent, of a fat steer is boneless beef 



"The average annual product of milk in i860 in thir- 

 teen states was 446 gallons per cow." — Willard's Dairy 

 Husbandry, p. 20. 



Assuming this as the average annual product per 

 cow, the 13,000,000 milch cows in the United States 

 will produce annually 5,798,000,000 gallons of milk, weigh- 

 ing 50,732,500,000 pounds, containing nutrition equal to 

 14,495,000,000 pounds of boneless beef; which is equal to 

 the boneless meat in 20,650,000 fat steers, of the gross 

 weight of 1,400 pounds each, or 700 pounds each of bone- 

 less meat. 



If we desire to find the money value of that amount 

 of nutritive food we have only to ascertain the value of 

 such cattle in our commercial markets. Estimating it at 

 ;^4.50 per hundred pounds, live weight, it amounts to 

 per head. 



