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per cow—the highest average from best dairies being $55.07, and 
the lowest $31.22, during the factory season of 1871. These fig¬ 
ures based on actual results of dairy operations under varied circum¬ 
stances, supply a tolerably accurate estimate of forty dollars as the 
average revenue or income per cow under fair, but not extrav¬ 
agantly careful management. The average net return to farmer 
patrons of the factory in New York was $1.20 per 100 pounds of 
milk. In the factory reporting the highest average per cow, $55.07, 
the selling price of cheese averaged net, fourteen and eleven hun¬ 
dredths cents per pound, and the milk taken was nine and seventy- 
six hundredths pounds to a pound of cheese. The average of all 
the highest dairies reported is, $50 per cow. The best season’s 
average of any of these dairies was $82.17 per cow. 
The milk-producers and the cheese or butter manufacturers have 
separate interests. The cow that yields the greatest quantity may 
give the poorest quality af milk, and vice versa. If the farmer, with 
a dairy of twenty, thirty, or forty cows, seeks his own advantage 
exclusively, he will select or breed stock with reference to the 
branch of dairying to which he gives a preference—either for 
cheese, or butter, or sale of milk. If, however, as is the case with 
nearl} r all dairymen, the farmer finds that, in spite of the utmost 
care, great disparities occur in the milking qualities of his herd, it 
is obviously his true policy to have such a classification of his cows 
as he can make from actual tests, and sell to the factories the milk 
from cows that yield the greatest quantity, and make into high- 
priced butter the milk of superior richness. The point up to which 
the true dairyman will endeavor to bring his entire herd, is three 
hundred pounds of butter, or six hundred pounds of cheese for each 
cow per season, and this product is not unreasonably large or un¬ 
attainable. In round figures, at low eastern prices, cheese at fifteen 
cents, or butter at thirty cents, it would be worth—say ninety dol¬ 
lars. 
EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS. 
Remarkable instances are recorded of enormous results in milk 
production, as compared with the average product of cows in ordi¬ 
nary herds under common treatment, which is estimated at only 
about one hundred and twenty pounds of butter each, per season, 
valued at $30 to $48, according to prices realized, ranging from 
