Keeping one cow: Being the experience of a number of practical writers, in a clear and condensed form, upon the management of a single milch cowVarious
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Keeping one cow: Being the experience of a number of practical writers, in a clear and condensed form, upon the management of a single milch cow
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Cows; Dairying
685 qts. Milk sold at 6c. $41.10
464 qts. Skim-milk sold at 2½c. 11.60
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Sales $52.70
670 qts. Milk used @ 6c. 40.20
127 lbs. Butter made @ 30c. 38.10
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Year’s return $131.00
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Memorandum—Cost keeping $75.65
Less sales 52.70
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$22.95
Plus purchases—
55 qts. Milk @ 6c. 3.30
53 lbs. Butter @ 30c. 15.90
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Cow products cost family $42.15
An absolute profit of fifty-five dollars from the cow is shown, and a
still larger saving in family expenses, besides nine hundred quarts of
skim-milk and butter-milk used in the house and poultry-yard and given
away. The yield of the cow shows “June” to be a superior animal, and
that is what the keeper of one cow should have, for it costs little more
in food and care than an ordinary one. But if the cow had been only
of medium quality and no new milk could be sold, it would have been a
profitable operation. And if, instead of selling new milk, as much butter
had been made as possible, there would still have resulted a balance of
over twenty dollars in favor of the cow.
[Illustration: Fig. 4.—PLAN OF VILLAGE LOT AND SURROUNDINGS.]
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