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portion of three and a half to one. And if we even estimate 
the money value of the food consumed, and compare it with 
the selling price of milk and butchers' meat, we shall find 
the profit to be very much in favour of the former. For, 
estimating the value of turnips at only 5s. per ton, we 
should have as the cost of the food of the milch cow : — 
£. * d. 
Ten tons of turnips 2 10 0 
Two tons of hay 8 0 0 
Two quarters of oats 2 0 0 
Five and a half bushels of beans ... 110 0 
£14 0 0 
While the cost of the food for the feeding cow would be : — 
£. s. d. 
Thirty tons of turnips 7 10 0 
Fourteen cwt. of linseed cake at 10s. 7 0 0 
£14 10 0 
The value of 1,000 gallons of milk, at 8d. per gallon, is 
£33 6s. 8d. The value of 865 lbs. of butchers' meat at 5id. 
per lb. is £19 16s. 6d. It will, therefore, be seen that, 
although the fattening cow consumes food of the same, or 
even a greater value, and would require a greater extent 
of land to support it, yet the amount of saleable flesh which 
it puts on in one year does not sell for so much as the milk 
it is capable of producing in the same time by £13 10s» 
But this selling price of milk is by no means a fair repre- 
sentative of its intrinsic value. We must estimate the value 
of every article of food in proportion to the amount of 
nutritive and respiratory ingredients, which, on analysis, it 
is found to contain ; and, if we take ordinary butchers' meat, 
costing 5Jd. per lb., as the standard of comparison, then we 
shall find that 865 lbs. of such meat sells for £19 1 6s. 6d., 
the 1,000 gallons of milk, which contain nutritive and fat- 
tening ingredients equivalent to 3,099 lbs. of such meat, 
