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BULLETIN 941, U. S. DEPABTMEXT OE AGRICULTURE. 
cash receipts from the sale of cream, though small, was the one 
factor which enabled them to go ahead with their work of improving 
and enlarging their farms and building up their herds of live stock, 
even in some cases preventing actual farm disaster. The sale of 
dairy products represented a source of cash income for 43 out of 
the 79 farms for which records were taken. The average amount 
of sales for farms selling dairy products was $215. On some farms 
the sales amounted only to an occasional few pounds of butter or 
cream and on a few farms it constituted the chief source. On many 
farms the sale of cream was one of the major sources of income. 
A few of the farmers had kept records of the amount of their sales of 
butter fat through the year, and one of the local creameries kindly 
gave information as to production of a few additional farmers with 
whom the sale of butter fat was a major source of income. In tins 
way the accurate butter-fat production for seven of the better herds 
of dairy cows in the region was obtained for the year 1917, as is shown 
in the following table: 
Table IX. — Butter-jat production oj seven dairy herds. 
Farm. 
t Average 
Value of 
I Average produc- 
Aver- tion of butter fat 
num- 
ber of 
cows. 
per cow. 
Quantity. Value 
Pounds. 
980 
1,563 
2,812 
2,525 
996 
1,563 
640 
11,079 
SO. 43S 
.421 
.409 
.424 
.391 
.421 
.40 
S429 
658 
1,152 
1,076 
390 
658 
256 
41' 
4.619 
10 
18 
18J 
6| 
12 
4 
Pounds. 
109 
156 
156 
136 
153 
130 
160 
142 
848 
66 
64 
58 
64 
59 
Included in the above dairy herds are two herds of Jersey and Guern- 
sey grades, one of grade Holsteins and Jerseys, two of grade Jerseys, 
one of grade Guernseys, and one containing some grades and also 
some purebred Jerseys. 
The average price per pound received varies slightly, owing to the 
fact that creameries located at interior points had to pay extra 
transportation charges, and therefore could not pay quite the prices 
which prevailed at railroad points: and also to the fact that the 
quantity of cream sold, by the different operators varied during the 
year, and hence the cream was sold at varying prices. 
Since the dairy business is an enterprise comparatively new to this 
area, the average butter-fat production per cow naturally was very 
much lower than it should be for the most satisfactory returns. The 
farmers are becoming much interested in the dairy business, how- 
ever, and improvements are being made gradually. One operator 
