How To Increase The Value Of A Cow

Every one whn mvn.í rt cnw can Bit at i glurfé th:it it wor.ld bo profitable to increaso t lio váHífi bf her, but cvery (me eannof. til! how to do it. Wé can, and we ihíMí tlftft WO can rnukoit equal ]y palpable to our readers. lf a cow is kept for butter, it would certainly udd to fiof vuIub if t lio buUer-rrudcing propertius oï her niilk should be iniproved. ín siimnier ór winter this can be improved just as tlio yiekl 0f a cullivaíed erop 6ait? be impinved liy what is ted lo euch, s'.nd it is simply a question ol wilt t par, in inaTitmng Wie one or ('eadiny; the otii-jr. Lidian ciirn wiil ná i to the quantity nnd qnality of tha buuer to i veiy sensilile üegree, and it i.ssimply :i queSlíOh f easy solütion, by expeiiment, who'her it iviH add to lliu profit of tho butter-rnakoy to buy co: i ut one or two' cciils á ]_ouiid und conveit :i porüón oí tinto butter :it twenty fivu cents a pound. or whatever the nial ket prica oí' orn and butter rnay be, and annihcr poition of it ir.to int, and uno her porlion of it into inamue for that is the result of the clicniical ohár.ge produced in ihe laboratuiy ot tho cdw's istomach. 'J'he Kan;e íisult will l'ollovv any other kind of feeding. Good paiture uill produce an nbun dance of milk, often u ninch as tho cow can carry; but dot-s it follovv that even then it uill not be proñtable to leed her with soino more oUüfgin.ous food to increase the (jnantity of butter j'.ist as it .somotiines provea profitable to fecd bees to enable theni lo stort more honey ? It eertainly dots íippear to us that the valué oí' a cow, feeding upon ordiiiíiry winter food, rnay be almost doubled by making that food snilable for the piirpnse of inoreasing tbe quantity of milk, if that is the purpose for whic-li the cow is kept. Farmers generally understand that they can convert corn i rito beef, pork and lard, and soino ol them know exactly at what price per bushel it will p;iy to oouvert corn or any oíher kind ol grain nito butter, or any oiher Uiod oi' leed into thu tl Li i : y jfdducts? Is thü whoUi buiíiis a hap-hazard pnc? Wo iear so. tíoiriü persons Itnów that they inprease Uiu 8u!eiilile valno ol bultnr by ndding ihu eoloring maller of oarrols to U. D"cs niy per-on ktiow iho valuec.fa biibhul ol carrots ïcd to a cow to inórente her vaTue as a. butttrproducing laboratoi'v? fixpwrmentiil i ji-ji 1 upon tliis point woiihl be far more wortby of agriciilturiil prizes iftan itistoseu who can show liio largewt sizfd roots; fwr by a carefuly conductcd experiment we üliould bü ublo to in crease ihe value oi ik cow almost at