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mid for meat and tallow. The Vermont Morgan, and Black-Hawk 
horses, also commanded high prices in the larger cities of the east; 
but both sheep and horses are less profitable than the dairy; and to 
this branch or system of agriculture, special attention is now given. 
From the proceedings of a recent meeting of dairymen at Rut¬ 
land, Vermont, it appears Hon. E. D. Mason, president of the Ver¬ 
mont dairymen’s association, derived from the product of his cows,, 
made into butter and cheese, eighty-three dollars and sixty-three 
cents per head in one year. The last annual report of that associ- 
ation contains a statement of Mr. C. A. Crampton, in East Swanton, • 
Vermont, who, besides supplying his family of thirteen persons 
with milk, cream, and butter without stint, and packing one thou¬ 
sand pounds of pork for family use, sold from the product of twen¬ 
ty-one cows 5,871 pounds of butter, at nearly 35i cents per pound, 
Which realized in cash.$2,081 16 
And for pork sold. 250 00 
Making a total of.2,331 16 
Less cash paid for grain for cows and hogs. 483 09 
Leaving net results. 1,848 09 
Or equivalent to $88 for each cow. 
NEW YORK DAIRIES. 
From the proceedings of the American dairymen’s association 
we learn, on the authority of Professor Willard, of Utica, New York, 
that in Herkimer county, native cows of his own herd had produced 
milk that averaged six hundred pounds of cheese per cow in a sea¬ 
son; and Mr. Fish made eight hundred pounds of cheese per cow, 
under high feed, with good selected cows. 
When we consider the average } 7 ield per cow from the two herds 
of cows whose milk is made into cheese at Mr. Barclay’s factory, in 
connection with similar results elsewhere, we shall be ready to ac¬ 
cord to him the honor of maintaining a respectable average. 
Prof. E. T. Wickson, for many years president of the dairymen’s 
board of trade at Utica, New York, and now transferring his use¬ 
fulness to California, has stated the average net return per cow to 
patrons, of over ninety cheese factories, which received the milk of 
more than thirty-six thousand cows, located in different parts of 
the State of New York, at thirty-nine dollars and fifty-seven cents 
