18 BULLETIN 633, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
was, respectively, $1,840 from 28 cows, $1,125 from 17 cows, $600 
from 20 cows, and $624 from 13 cows. The farm having 28 cows 
raised 12 acres of corn and 10 acres of sorghum fodder ; also 4 acres 
of millet and 3 acres of rye for hay. It had only 52.5 acres of crops, 
there being only 14 acres of wheat. The other three farms had from 
100 to 135 acres of crops, including from 40 to 60 acres of wheat. 
One of these farms had 30 acres of corn, 15 of which was cut for 
silage. Because of the large number of cows on these farms it was 
necessary to supplement the corn by other kinds of forage. As al- 
ready stated, one of the farms did this by growing 10 acres of 
sorghum fodder, 4 acres of millet, and 3 acres of rye hay. An- 
other, which had 20 acres of corn, grew also 20 acres of sorghum 
fodder. The farm which had 15 acres of corn for grain and 15 acres 
of silage had 12 acres of clover for hay and 15 acres of rye pasture. 
The other farm had 40 acres of corn, 5 acres of cowpeas, and 25 
acres of oats. 
Two of these farms sold all their milk at retail in the town of 
Monett, the retail price being 4J cents a quart. The income per cow 
for milk sold on these two farms was, in both cases, $67. A third 
farm obtained $200 for retail milk at 5 cents a quart and $400 from 
cream sold to the creamery at an average of 25 cents per pound for 
butter fat. The fourth farm sold only butter, the average price being 
27J cents, and the income from this source being $624. The labor 
incomes on , these farms were $1,691, $552, $663, and $1,299, re- 
spectively. 
A good dairy cow should produce 4.000 or 5,000 pounds of good 
milk a year. The average pounds of milk per cow on these four 
farms, not counting the milk consumed on the farm, was as follows : 
3,188, 3,743, 2,030, and 2,268. On three of them the cows were all 
Jerseys, some of them pure bred and others grades. One of the 
farms had Jersey grade cows with a Hereford bull. It also had four 
pure-bred Hereford cows and was probably changing from the dairy 
business to the beef-cattle business. It would be a great mistake 
for a dairyman to use a bull of a beef breed if he wishes to continue 
in the dairy business. 
Judging by the experience of the majority of farmers here the 
proper status of dairying in this region, except for the few farms 
that are needed to supply milk to the town, is represented by the 
keeping of a few cows mainly as a means of converting roughage 
and other unsalable materials into a salable product, the cream 
being sold to creameries and the young stock being raised mainly 
on waste products of the farm. These cows should be either good 
dairy cows or good animals of a beef breed, the principal income 
from them in the latter case being from the sale of young stock. 
