Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-06-24
Profits of the Dairy.

To those who contemplate going into the
dairy business, with q view to the improve
ment of their land, the questions as to the
Telative profits Of milk and butter, and the
most economical mode of disposing of the ma
nure, are very important.
In order to enlighten your readers on this
subject, / cannot do better than give q de-
seription of tho dairy fixtures Of one of my
neighbors, who sells milk in the PHILADELPHIA
market His stock consists of thirty-six cows
which enable him to milk thirty during the
whole year. The stable has two rows of stalls.
four feet wide, and fifteen in a row, with an
entry between them, from which they are fed
II also contains 4 loft where straw, fodder.
and other dry feed is kept. The floor is made
OF Stats, through which the manure falls into
trench four feet deep. By this plan less
bedding Is required, and the cows are kept
dry. They are MIXED in the stall at all sea-
sons, as the labor can be performed in half
the time required in the yards In winter
they are kept up most Of the time, being let
out to water twice day. Cut straw or fod-
der, bran snd meal, wet and steamed, is given
them three times day. say IL pecks at a
meal, costing six cents extra for their board.
The average yield of milk for half of the year,
commencing with October, ia about l4O quarts
From this time tn April in previous years, the
price has been four cents a quart. The bal
ance Of the year the average is about 100
quarIs, and three cents quart-thus making
an annual daily product Of $50 quarts, at 81
cents for 365 days:
This amounts 10. observation-disclosures. .9I6 25
Exra feed for SH months -........ 3OD %
Animal cost OF LABOR about. $50 90
fronb............-...... 500 Is
We will assume that the expenses Of feed
and quantity Of milk in q butter dairy, are
similar TO the above. Our best dairymen tell
US that it takes not less than fourteen quarts
Of milk to make pound Of butter, and that
skim milk is not worth over one cent per quart
for hog feed. Dividing the yearly product Of
milk by fourteen gives !, $40 pounds butter.
At IS cents 10 would be be............s 977 so
- ,7s5 qss skim milk a. cent per qt... SGT 95
Totsl ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SOS IS
Feed 81 mos $500, aggregate expense. 7OO 10
Profits Of butter .-...................... sSe5 IS
Profits Of milk ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1866 25
Dluefentc -.............-....- oUO ~
In this calculation 1 have omitted 1886
quarts Of skim milk, being an allowance Of a
Quart TO the pound Of butter. The estimated
expenses Of the butter dairy are very mod
crate, as many would consider them double
thyse Of milk.
By the above il will be seen that in the fret
instance We are getting about so cents for our
II quarts Of milk, and in the second, (allow-
ing IS cents for butter and l3t for SKINNED
and butter-milk, y about 80 cents.
In order then to make them equally profit
able, We must realize SO cents pound for the
butter the entire year. II is very difficult
matter to dispose of butter in this locality at
IS cents the year round
The freight on milk by railroad this distance
from the city would qusdruple that Of butter,
and hence we must deduct about four cents
for transporting the fourteen quarts Of milk
to market. Strictly speaking, il would staEd
butter and skim milk, 80; value Of new milk,
I6. Thus showing a difference Of four or five
hundred dollars per annum in favor Of the
milk business.
It will be seen that We feed away S521
worth Of milk to hogs in the one case, and
this would buy nearly 900 bushels Of corn al
60 cents per bushel. Can any one tell which
woald make the most pork? would prefer
500 bushels corn to the 62,79s quarts milk
Germantown Telegraph.