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good care of cattle, he was glad to hear discussed. He 
thought the more care we gave cattle the more we would 
get out of them. Kindness to them would bring its 
reward. He was pleased to see the ladies out. This sub¬ 
ject of home was a good one to discuss. We must not for¬ 
get as we were traveling through this world that we had a 
social nature as well as a physical nature that needed culti¬ 
vation. 
The secretary then read the following paper on “ The 
Food Value of the Milk Product of the United States,” 
prepared by G. P. Lord, of Elgin: 
G. P. LORD’S PAPER. 
‘ Three and one-half pounds of milk possess the same 
amount of nutrition that is contained in one pound of 
boneless beef.”— Willard’s Dairy Husbandry,p. ij. 
“ Every fat ox gives 57.7 per cent, of butcher’s meat, 
including bones, to every 100 pounds live weight.”— Ency¬ 
clopedia Britannic a, 8 th cd., vol. g, p. 762. “About 12U 
per cent, of such meat is bone.”— Same work, p. J62. Con¬ 
sequently 50 per cent, of a fat steer-is boneless beef. 
“The average annual product of milk in i860 in thir¬ 
teen states was 446 gallons per cow.”— Willard’s Dairy 
Husbandry, p. 20. 
Assuming this as the average annual product per 
cow, the 13,000,000 milch cows in the United States 
will produce annually 5,798,000,000 gallons of milk, weigh¬ 
ing 5 °. 73 2 > 5 00 > 000 pounds, containing nutrition equal to 
1 4 , 495 * 000,000 pounds of boneless beef; which is equal to 
the boneless meat in 20,650,000 fat steers, of the gross 
weight of 1,400 pounds each, or 700 pounds each of bone¬ 
less meat. 
If we desire to find the money value of that amount 
of nutritive food we have only to ascertain the value of 
such cattle in our commercial markets. Estimating it at 
$ 4 - 5 ° per hundred pounds, live weight, it amounts to $63 
per head. 
