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113 per cent. In other words these figures mean that our best, as far as 

 dairy products are concerned, is worth 12, cows like No. 21. By adding 

 the receipts less cost of feed of our poorest eleven cows, we have a total 

 of $41.63, or just $1.26 more than the receipts from our best cow. Taking 

 an average of the most profitable five cows and we have receipts of 

 $28.89 per cow. Contrasting this with $6.35, the average receipts from 

 the least profitable five cows and we see there is a difference of $22.54, or 

 355 per cent. In other words an average cow from the most profitable 

 five cows is worth as much as iVz cows from an average of the least profit- 

 able five cows. As will be seen from the table there were four cows that 

 run the college in debt for their feed, the average deficiency being $2.35 

 per cow. Three of these cows are already sold for beef and their connec- 

 tion with the College will be severed as soon as the Dairy Association is 

 over. The last column is also an interesting one, showing the cost of 

 producing a pound of butter fat. Our beat cow produced butter fat at 

 8 cents per pound, and our poorest at three times that, or 24 cents per 

 pound. It should be noticed that the cows that cost us the most for feed 

 are those that produced butter fat the cheapest. The cost of a pound of 

 butter fat was 9 cents with our most profitable five cows, 15 cents for the 

 least profitable, and 20 cents for the debt contractors. 



In the portion of the table headed "Averages of Herd" the first line 

 gives the average of the whole herd of 28 head under experiment. The 

 second line gives the average of the herd as it would have been without 

 the four unprofitable cows. In both cases the test happens to be the same 

 but it will be noticed that these four unprofitable cows reduce the average 

 of the herd of 411 pounds of milk and 17 pounds of butter fat from what 

 it would have been with 24 cows. They caused a reduction in the aver- 

 age income per cow of $3.27, and' in the receipts less cost of feed of $2.68 

 per cow. With the 28 head butter fat was produced at 13 cents per pound; 

 take away the four unprofitable ccws and it cost 12 cents per pound. In 

 the above calculation the price of feed has been figured at what the far- 

 mer could realize for it if sold on the local market in Manhattan. In 

 considering profits from the cows we must bear in mind that the farmer 



