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Show VALUE OF A COW'S PRODUCTS Sales 8hould Reach at Least $50 Per Annum to Allow Dairy Man to' Break Even on Investment. Tho valuo of a cow's products should pay the cost of feod, the labor ot caring for her, even though no help Is hired, and at least six per cent. Interest on tho capital Invested, that Is on tho valuo of tho cow and tho cost of sheltering her. Feed, labor la-bor and Interest for the average cow-kept cow-kept In tho northern states nmount to $50 a year at the lowest estimate. It may bo said that tho sales from tho average cow, or rather the value of her product, should be at least $50 per year. It should be this amount to break oven. It should bo moro than this to mako dairying as profitable as It must be to Interest and hold iho northern farmor. It must bo more than this to build up tho farm and iiako tho buildings moro comfortable comforta-ble and ,tho hours of work moro fea-ionnblo. |