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twenty-five to forty cents per pound. Mr. Bussey, of Macedon, 
New York, figures tfie proceeds of a small dairy of four cows (in¬ 
cluding sales of pork, calves, and butter) at $129.42 for each cow 
in one season. They were fed on grass until the latter part of 
November, and wintered on clover and potatoes. An Alderney 
cow of Mr. Andrews, of Bethany, Connecticut, gave milk that pro¬ 
duced over one pound of butter for four quarts of milk; while the 
ordinary allowance is twenty-five pounds of milk for one pound of 
butter. Mr. W. B. Sweet, of Pompey, New York, has taxed the 
credulity of everyone by stating thut he had a short-horned cow, 
fed on clover-hay, and four quarts of mixed oat and barley meal, 
that produced foiTy-two pounds of milk per day, which made seven¬ 
teen and a half pounds of butter per week, which at thirty cents 
per pound, would be $5.25 per week, or over $200 per sea¬ 
son; but, as this statement is generally received with distrust, we 
will merely count it as a u short-horn 11 story. But here is a better 
one. Mr. Beebe, of Wayne county, New York, made people’s eyes 
open widely at the statement about his cow—a cross of Durham 
and native—which was milked three times a day, yielding thirty 
quarts or sixty pounds of milk daily; and from which in four weeks 
he churned ninety pounds of butter. If valued at thirty-five cents 
per pound, ten months of this work would yield $270 for her but¬ 
ter in one season. 
Mr. C. M. Morgan, of Cuba, Alleghany county, New York, 
shows by an account with a cheese-factory for the season of 1874, 
that from a dairy of sixteen cows he sold one hundred and fifteen 
thousand and forty-seven pounds of milk, averaging four hundred 
and seventy-three and one-half pounds per day, or seven thousand 
one hundred and ninety pounds per cow for the season, for which he 
received $1.26 per hundred pounds of milk, or a total of $1,449.45, 
being an average of $90.59 per cow. This dairyman keeps no 
cow that does not come up to his standard of profitable productive¬ 
ness. He is a liberal feeder, and during the dairy-season gives his 
cows a slop of one part of corn-meal and three parts of middlings. 
Possibly he might not select or keep the same cows if he made but¬ 
ter, in making which, a New Jersey farmer has realized $96.15 per 
cow during the season, while selling his butter at forty cents per 
pound. 
