Hay, the best, two tons, at $10 per ton $20.00 200 pounds of Oil-cake, at $4 per 100 pounds 8.00 800 pounds of Provender, at $1 per 100 pounds 8.00 Half a ton of Bran, at $12 per ton 6.00 One ton of Mangels 5.00 ----- $47.00 Your cow will require the following “trousseau”: One five-gallon stone churn $1.25 One and a half dozen milk pans, at $2 3.00 One milk pail and strainer .60 One butter bowl (wooden) .50 One paddle and print .20 Two wooden pails for feed .40 One card .25 ----- $6.20 Cost of a good cow 40.00 ----- Interest at 6 per cent $3.69 Any ordinary family will take from a milkman at least one quart a day. We in Ottawa pay eight cents per quart, making per year (365 × 8,) $29.20. It is a very poor cow that will not average five pounds of butter a week for forty weeks, and that at twenty-five cents per pound, that is 40 (weeks) × 5 (pounds), × 25 (cents), equals 50 (dollars). So the account stands thus: Butter $50.00 Milk 29.20 ------ $79.20 Cost of food for one year $47.00 } Interest on cow and trousseau 3.69 } 50.69 ------ Profit $28.51 LAND AND CROPS.