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35.30. pounds, then the straw of tfie same, estimated at 1% tons per 
acre would give us 6,000. pounds, the ash of which would be 211,08. 
pounds, and lastly we give a cow the products of two acres to sustain 
her for the year and take from her 5,000. pounds of milk, the ash of 
which would be about 30.50. pounds. Now let us spend a few mo¬ 
ments in looking at the component parts of the ash as above, that we 
may form some idea of what each of the live different kinds contain, 
and the amount ot the same. In so doing you will please allow us 
to recapitulate a little. 
Dry Timothy 
Hay, 6< 00 lbs. 
Ash, 317.16 lbs. 
Dry Ited Clover 
Hay 6,000 lbs. 
Ash, 448.68 lbs. 
Wheat Berry, 
3,000 lbs. 
Ash, 35.30 lbs. 
"Wheat Straw 
6,000 lbs. 
Ash, 211.08 lbs. 
1_'_ 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
Pnf.p sh .... 
52.86 
23.64 
44.04 
5.40 
1.86 
166.32 
21.’8 
1.50 
0.36 
59.85 
31.74 
166.80 
19.98 
0.84 
21.66 
26.82 
39.42 
21.72 
6.74 
7.20 
2.88 
2.70 
0.78 
12.00 
1.50 
1.20 
0.30 
1.20 
1.74 
14.40 
1.92 
5.40 
172.20 
2 22 
10.20 
1.80 
Soda ..-' 
Tii mp ... 
Macrnpsia. ......... 
Alumina—traces of Iron . 
Kili pa, ..... 
SnlnVmrir> Anid ... 
PVmsrfhorif* . 
Chlorine . .. 
Totals . .. 
317.16 
448.68 
35.30 
2 
211.08 
70.60 
70.60 
281.68 
5,000 pounds of milk gave 30.50 lbs of Ash, composed of— 
Phosphate of Lime. 
Magnesia. 
Per Oxide Iron. 
Chloride of Potassium. 
“ “ Sodium. 
Free Soda.... 
15.49 Pounds 
2.88 
0.31 “ 
8.27 “ 
1.53 “ 
2.02 
Total Ash. 30 50 
We see by the foregoing figures that a ton of timothy hay takes 
from the soil in solid matter 105.72 pounds. One ton of clover 149.5^ 
lbs One ton of the berry of wheat 23.53; the same of wheat-straw 
70.36. One ton of wheat and straw together 93.89, and one ton of milk 
12.20. lbs. this is exclusive of gasses removed in each case. 
If these figures are correct, can we doubt which kind of farming is 
best, so far as keeping up and in good condition the farm lands? 
The question has often been asked it the West is not likely tc 
over do the dairy business. You will please let us look at this ques¬ 
tion, as it is one of much importance to the dairymen of Illinois. Ir 
the first place we will cast our eye back to the decade prior tc 
1850, when but little butter was made for sale in Northern Illinois 
and when that little brought from eight to ten cents per pound on ar 
average. This was at the time when it took only a dozen tubs to glm 
the great Chicago market. 
It has been hinted that the butter made at the time mentioned above 
was of inferior quality and consequently had to be sold low. While 
some might have been, we are quite sure that all was not so. 
A visit made by us to Chicago at a time with a friend w T ho hac 
