WllAT HAS SCIENCE DONE FOR FARMERS? 
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results of actual values to the dairy farmer. From authentic re¬ 
ports furnished by the Utica Herald, for the year 1874, as the aver¬ 
age yield from about ninety factories for eight months’ time of run¬ 
ning, Avas $39.44 for each cow. One factory showed an average of 
$55.07; the lowest in that factory was $31.22. The highest yield 
in any one was $90.59, while the lowest average cash from one cow 
was $14.50. The average cash from those factories for the year 
1875 Avas somewhat less, owing to the fact that the price of cheese 
has been less by nearly two cents per pound than for the previous 
year, but shoAvs the same ratio of results. Now there was practice 
in that man’s method who kept the coav that yielded in value only 
$14.50 for eight months, but how much science did he possess 
Avhich made him content to keep her. From Mr. Bois, of Marengo, 
Illinois, Avhose butter factory I Au’sited a year ago last January, I 
have this statement. He says December 1st we had eighty-seven 
new milch cows, and thirteen farrow ones, and in one hundred and 
twenty-three days they gave 289,666 pounds of milk, or an average 
of twenty-six and one-sixth pounds of milk per day, with an average 
of about twenty-two pounds of milk for a pound of butter. It may 
be proper to add that Mr. Bois practices Avhat may be termed win¬ 
ter dairying, considering this to be the most profitable for him; and 
at the time I was there, he Avas using the milk from nearly four hun¬ 
dred cows. In contrast Avith this average yield of milk in the win¬ 
ter months, I give the yield of milk from the herd of .one man Avho 
sent milk to my factory last season. From twelve cows for one hun¬ 
dred and eleven days during the best part of the season, the yield was 
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20,573 pounds, or a fraction less than 15^ pounds per day for each 
cow. Noav if farming or dairying does not pay, Avhich class of men 
are the first to find it out? I will give one more illustration to this 
part of my subject. Mr. Arnold, one of the best practical dairy¬ 
men of Herkimer county. New York, mentioned the case of one 
man who took five of his best cows from the herd, keeping debt 
and credit Avith them for the year, and found the net cash income 
on each Avas $28.71. He also took five of the poorest, keeping the 
account in the same Avay, and found the loss on each to be $7.05. 
Loss on fiA’^e coavs in one year was $35.25, while the gain on 
the other five Avas $143.55. Quite a difference, you Avill say 
and yet it took the same care and feed for these less than worth¬ 
less five cows, than it did for the other cows, saying nothing 
