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an average of 304i sjallons of milk per cow on the gross number of cows for 

 six months. 



The average for the two years was 657i gallons per cow on the gross 

 number of cows in the dairies of those furnishing .that company with milk. 

 It will be noticed that the average time of the cows giving milk was a few 

 days over nine months each. 



And here it is proper to state that the quantity of milk consumed in the 

 families of the dairymen supplying that factory with milk should be added 

 to the quantity reported, and so the products of those dairies would be in- 

 creased by that amount. Nor should any portion of this milk be credited 

 to the cow standing by the pump, for the company daily test the quality of 

 the milk received by them, and a memorandum of the quality as well as the 

 quantity is set opposite every man's name, and I am safe in saying that for 

 quality as well as quantity this record cannot be excelled in any section of 

 the country. 



And here I would say that all that is intended by this tabulated state- 

 ment is that it shows the possibilities of the dairy, and that the patrons of 

 that company have learned how to avail themselves of these possibilities. 



In order to ascertain the amount of capital invested in the dairy industry 

 of this State, we estimate that it will require an average of four acres of im- 

 proved land to supply the animals with food, and an average of a span of 

 horses to every twenty cows for the cultivation of the land and for market- 

 ing and distributing the milk. The improved land we value at $50 per acre, 

 the cows at $35, and the horses at $80 each. 



3,460,772 acres improved land @ $50 $173,038,600 



865,193 milch cows @ $35 30,281,755 



86,519 horses @ $80 6,921,720 



Wagons, harness, farm and dairy machinery, say.. 4,000,000 



Total capital invested $214,242,175 



There are two ways of arriving at the value of the annual milk product 

 of this state, one is the market value, or the price of milk in our leading 

 markets, (and this is the basis of valuing other agricultural crops), the 

 other is the value of milk for the manufacture of butter and cheese. 



This value can only be ascertained by taking a given quantity of milk, 

 and the value of the products, and deducting the cost of making butter and 

 cheese from that value, and then ascertaining the net price per gallon for 

 the milk. 



Governor Cullom, in his address before this Association in 1882, says the 

 milk sold was 40,153,488 gallons, value $3,814,581, an average of 9i cents per 

 gallon. 



Valuing the 404,197,231 gallons of milk (being the annual milk product 

 of this State on our estimate), and we find its market value to be $38,398,736. 



While this is the basis of valuing agricultural products it does not give 

 a j ust idea of the value of these products in the hands of those removed from 

 markets. 



To ascertain the value of milk for butter and cheese, we take the quan- 

 tity of milk (316,636,778 pounds), delivered at the cheese and butter factories 



