St. Johnsbury Caledonian

For the Farm.

A GOOD SHOWING.

They have a farmers' club in South Ryegate and are alive and attentive to their interests, as the following figures will show. The farmers here have long had an excellent reputation as dairymen, which it seems is well merited. A census of the dairy interests of this part of the town has been taken for 1891, and from it there appears to be 22 dairies represented, ranging from 7 to 30 cows, average 16.

The dairies range in production from 200 to 325 pounds, while the average for the whole is 225 pounds. Allowing the average price of butter to be 20 cents a pound, this would give a gross income of $51 per cow. It should be more than this. But few towns, it is evident, can make a better showing than this.

The New England Homestead, from which these figures are taken, asks as to how much of this income is profit? More, it can be most safely asserted, than in the common run of dairies.

Such results are not realized from ordinary care and keeping. They are obtained from many years of careful selecting, breeding and judicious feeding. If with the amount of butter made per cow the net prices had been given, it is probable that the figures would have been somewhat in proportion to the amount of production. The same care and painstaking will naturally be expended in finding a suitable market for the butter, as is bestowed on its manufacture and in the care of the stock.

There is this thing, however, in favor of marketing the product. After its quality is once known and appreciated there will usually be no further trouble in this direction, if it is kept up to the requisite standard. That is what will be required and it is a careful and fortunate farmer that makes no mistakes here. - [E. R. Towle in St. Albans Messenger.]