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The Embarrassing Cow. 



But what about cow No. 2 ? Her record embarrasses the 

 situation (and it would embarass the dairyman owning her too). 

 If she had made $2.86 profit, there would be at least something 

 to compare with. Then it would only take fifteen such to equal 

 a single cow like No. 1. But No. 2 didn't do it. It was $2.86 

 loss instead of profit. For profit in milk production, a thousand 

 or million such cows would not equal one of the other kind. 

 Here is where numbers don't count, or rather where they count in 



Cow No. 2. — Average record for three years, 3,830 lbs. milk; 138 lbs. butterfat. 



Lacked $2.86 per year of earning her board. 



Fifty-two as poor as she found in eighteen Illinois dairy herds. 



the wrong direction. This is one of the few places that algebra 

 comes in; the comparison, if any, must deal with a minus side. 



It Means Two Farms or No Farm. 



The man with eighty cows like No. 1 could clear up enough 



