

REPORT oF THE Dirzcron OF THE 
tered animals of finest blogde They are fed the same food, 
receive the same care, and yet in cost of production of milk the 
best is to poorest as 100 is to 162, while in cost of production of 
butter the best is to the poorest as 100 is to 196, while one may 
be among the least profitable for milk and among the most profit- 
able for butter production. — 
The annual average of our dairy cows in butter is from 125 to 
127 pounds, but we have the report of one dairyman whose herd 
averaged last year 394 pounds of butter per cow, and he explains 
why it was not fifty pounds more, and says his herd for the 
past sixteen years has not failed to yield him an average of 300 
pounds per cow and a net profit of over fifty dollars each 
perannum. On the other hand we find that seventy-five per cent 
of the cows in one of our best dairy sections of the State have not 
paid their cost. 
2. Two of our leading dairymen, each getting an average butter 
product of over 300 pounds per annum per cow, feed rations cost- 
ing respectively sixteen and thirty-one and one-half cents daily 
per cow, but a saving of one cent per day in the rations of our 
dairy animals in this State is $15,522 per day or ss at 000 
annually. 
3. We have proved at the Experiment Station at Geneva that 
milch cows gave back in the liquid and solid “manure a value in 
fertilizing constituents, nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid, 
equal to seventy per cent of the market value of the feed fed the 
animals and that three-fifths of this was in the liquid portion. 
Now the milch cows of this State annually consume, at thirty-six 
dollars each, $56,000,000 worth of food, seventy per cent of which 
is $39,200,000; we have besides 1,462,872 horses, mules and oxen 
costing quite as much more, as also 2,234,747 sheep and hogs. It 
is safe to estimate the manure made upon the farms of this State — 
at $100,000,000 of which itis also safe to estimate that one-half 
or two-thirds is allowed to waste. 
We have sought to impress these facts upon our farmers by 
means of a colored chart which gives the relative amount of these 
fertilizing and food constituents in the several farm products and 
cattle foods. These charts have been distributed to granges, 
agricultural societies and farmers’ clubs throughout the State, © 
and have been ordered by Stations of several other States for — a, 
distribution in those States. 

