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months at 30 cents per gallon. My cows averaged 

 during that time $108 worth of milk per cow. For 

 the next six months we sold our milk at 40 cents per 

 gallon, and the average was as much per head as $216 

 per year. In winter I stable, and feed hay at night 

 and graze during the day. I have made butter and 

 cheese on the Western Eeserve of Ohio, and I know a 

 cow will give as much milk or make as much butter or 

 cheese on wild grasses as she would on the richest clover 

 and blue-grass pastures of the East." 



Mr. M. Sloan writes : " I have been a dairyman in 

 Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Montana. I commenced 

 the same business near Cheyenne, Wyoming, many 

 years ago. The first year I milked 20 cows, the next 

 summer 38, the following summer 50. I have an 

 extra lot of milch-cows for the West, and they would 

 be called, even in the old States, first-class. For the 

 months of June, July, and August they averaged 

 eighteen quarts of milk daily. For the other nine 

 months they yielded over two gallons. In the best 

 part of the season they would make one pound and a 

 half of butter per head daily, and the whole year they 

 would average one pound per day. From the same 

 cow, after acclimation, I can make more butter and 

 cheese in the West than can be made in the most noted 

 dairy-region in the East. Cows that are milked win- 

 ters are fed on good bright hay ; those that are not, 

 graze for themselves, and are in fine order in the 

 spring, when the milking season commences." 



Mr. Edward Farrall writes : " I have been dairying 

 at Laramie, on a branch of the Laramie River, for 



