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Show THE DAIRY COW'S PRODUCT. 7hc products of the dairy cow arc four fold. The first and chief product is naturally the milk which she secretes, se-cretes, and which is used as milk, or for butter, or cheese making. The second, product, is calvcs which sho bears, and which may be of more or lcs.s value. Third, the carcass of "beef which she will yield when she is no longer useful for the production of milkj should be taken into account. Lastly, the manure she produces is of considerable, value. ,, J ' ' ' . t 'We may icall the milk the main pro- duct anl the calves, ibeef and manure, the .by-products of the dairy cow. It , tins' ticcn asserted that the milk' pro- r Ai dug:, is the only thing that should be .... taken into consideration in estimating i ii U w the, value of the dairy cow, and that tlfcrcalvcs and beef should be entirely 1 ignored by(a successful dairyman, bub in these days of strong competition it ist ot ossill& to ignor.c the by-pro-' duct, and in any scheme of succqss- ful j dairying the calves and beef at,, ' i . least be taken into consideration. I ,4 , 1 TJijs docs not mean that in any case milk, producing qualities arc to bc sacrificed for the sake of the by-products j' ' ) ' Tt simply means Jiat of two anl-ma anl-ma Is of equal value for the production produc-tion of milk, the one that will give the greater return in production- of calves and value of carcass is more profitable. profit-able. J3YLVANUS VAN AKEN. |