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Fattening Calves for Veal. 



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produce a calf weighing from 16 to 18 stones and worth £5, the 

 question arises : how does this sum compare with the amount 

 realised by dealing with the milk in some other way ? 

 Where milk can be sold for 6d. a gallon, 185 gallons of 

 new milk would bring in £4 12s. 6d. Converting a similar 

 amount of milk into hard cheese and calculating that 1 gallon 

 of milk equals 1 lb. of ripe cheese at yd. per lb. the figure arrived 

 at is £5 8s., to which must be added a few shillings for the 

 value of the whey. In butter-making, 2J gallons of milk may 

 be expected to make 1 lb. of butter, so that 185 gallons of milk 

 would produce 74 lb. of butter, which at is. id. per lb. would 

 come to £4 os. 2d. plus the separated and butter milk which 

 would be worth on the farm from id. to 2d. per gallon. In each 

 of these examples the value of the newly dropped calf must 

 be added, which in the case of an ordinary shorthorn may 

 reasonably be expected to be worth £1 or more. 



Estimate of Comparative Gross Returns from Calf and 

 185 Gallons of Milk. 



New milk selling— 



£ 



s. 



d. 



185 gallons of new milk at 6d. 



4 



12 



6 



Calf, few days old ... 



1 



O 



0 



Total gross returns from milk and calf ... 



5 



12 



6 



Cheese making — 









185 gallons of milk = 185 lb. of cheese at jd. 



5 



7 



11 



Value of whey on the farm, say 160 gallons at \d. 



0 



6 



8 



Calf as above ... ... ... ... 



1 



0 



0 



Total gross returns from calf and cheese making... 



6 



14 



7 



Butter making — 









185 gallons of milk = 74 lb. of butter at is. id. 



4 



0 



2 



Separated milk at id. per gallon ... 



0 



14 



0 



Butter milk, estimated at ... 



0 



1 



0 



Calf as above 



1 



0 



0 



Total gross returns from calf and butter-making... 



5 



15 



2 



About 10 gallons of milk, or say 5s., might be deducted for 

 the colostrum, which would have no value except for cal: 

 feeding. This gives the revised totals as : — 



£ s, d. 



Milk selling 5 7 6 



Cheese making... ... ... ... ... 697 



Butter making 515 2 



Veal production ... ... ... ... 500 



In the above estimate the calf pays a little more than $d. 

 per gallon of milk consumed, as the value of the newly-born 

 calf must be deducted, leaving £4 as payment for the 

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