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to the practical farmer keeping such cows for the money there 



is in it? 



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$42.60 Profit vs. $2.86 Loss. 



Counting the butter fat at 25c per pound, one cow returns' 

 $101.16 and the other $34.50 per year. Taking out the known 

 and exact cost of feed in each case, the one cow brings in a clear 

 profit of $42.60 per year, and the other lacks $2.86 of paying f oi- 

 lier board at market prices of feed. 



Forty such cows as No. 1 would return a dairyman a clear 



Cow No. 1. — Average record for three years, 11,390 lbs. milk; 405 lbs. butterfat 

 From the same feed this cow produced 1.88 times as much butterfat as cow 

 No. 2. Returns a clear profit of $42.60 per year. 



profit of $1,704 per year, and a herd of eighty would make him 

 $3,408 above all expenses. The latter is a very good stroke of 

 business to do with a herd that could be maintained on 200 acres 

 of good land. 



