To purchase, April 2d $35.00
do. Hay 12.00
do. Service 0.50
do. Pasture 15.00
------ $62.50
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Net Profit $34.70
I was so well pleased with this result, notwithstanding the unfavorable
circumstance of having started with a fat cow, that the next spring I
repurchased her at the same price paid the spring previous. But instead
of a fat cow then, she was thin enough to afford a good study of animal
anatomy. She had had no other feed than corn stalks, for the two months
that she had been dry, and was as much thinner than when I sold her; as
she was at that time thinner than when I first bought her. In fact, she
had been subjected to a gradual system of depletion for a year.
I sold her on the first of October, following, when her account stood
as follows, no account having been made of the milk used in the family,
numbering three persons, as before: