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Milch Cows and Dairy Farming: Comprising the Breeds, Breeding, and Management, in Health and Disease, of Dairy and Other Stock, the Selection of Milch Cows, with a Full Explanation of Guenon's Method; The Culture of Forage Plants, and the Production of Milk, Butter, and Cheese: Embodying the Most Recent Improvements, and Adapted to Farming in the United States and British Provinces. With a Treatise upon the Dairy Husbandry of Holland; To Which Is Added Horsfall's System of Dairy ManagementFlint, Charles Louis

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Milch Cows and Dairy Farming: Comprising the Breeds, Breeding, and Management, in Health and Disease, of Dairy and Other Stock, the Selection of Milch Cows, with a Full Explanation of Guenon's Method; The Culture of Forage Plants, and the Production of Milk, Butter, and Cheese: Embodying the Most Recent Improvements, and Adapted to Farming in the United States and British Provinces. With a Treatise upon the Dairy Husbandry of Holland; To Which Is Added Horsfall's System of Dairy Management

Name: Milch Cows and Dairy Farming: Comprising the Breeds, Breeding, and Management, in Health and Disease, of Dairy and Other Stock, the Selection of Milch Cows, with a Full Explanation of Guenon's Method; The Culture of Forage Plants, and the Production of Milk, Butter, and Cheese: Embodying the Most Recent Improvements, and Adapted to Farming in the United States and British Provinces. With a Treatise upon the Dairy Husbandry of Holland; To Which Is Added Horsfall's System of Dairy Management
Author: Flint, Charles Louis

Flint, Charles Louis

Cows; Dairying

My cow, average yield for 9 weeks, 14 quarts
  per day, at 2_d._ per quart,                             16      4
  Gain of flesh, 6¹⁄₄ lbs per week, at 6_d._,               3      1¹⁄₂
                                                          -------------
                                                           19      5¹⁄₂

  Cost of food:
  Hay, 63 lbs., at 6_d._ per stone; straw and
  shells of oats, 1_s._ 3_d._; mangel, 1_s._,   4    6¹⁄₂
  Rape-cake, 35 lbs.; bran, 10¹⁄₂ lbs.; malt-
  combs, 10¹⁄₂ lbs.; bean-meal, 10¹⁄₂ lbs.,     4    0¹⁄₂   8      7
                                                          -------------
            Profit,                                        10     10¹⁄₂

The richer quality of the manure will probably compensate for the extra
labor, cooking, and attention bestowed upon my cow.

With a view of extending the comparison, give particulars of the whole
of my cows the weights of which were registered on the 8th of October,
and which were still on hand, free from calf, and in a state admitting
of comparison. These were bought at a neighboring market in but moderate
condition, and were young, having had two or three calves each. A cow in
full condition attains her maximum yield in a week or so after calving;
whilst those in lower condition continue, by my treatment, to increase
their quantity up to about a month after calving.

                               TABLE.
  --------+---------+---------+--------------+--------------------
          |         |         |              |     February 4.
          |         |         |+-------------+--------------+-----
          |         | Greatest|              |              |Yield
          |         |yield per|   October 8  |              | per
    No.   | Calved. |   day.  |    Weight.   |    Weight.   | day.
  --------+---------+---------+--------------+--------------+-----
          |         | Quarts. |Cwt. qrs. lbs.|Cwt. qrs. lbs.| Qts.
     1.   |July  28.|   12    | 9    2    0  |10    0    0  |  8
     2.   |Aug.  25.|   18    |10    0    0  |11    1    0  | 14
     4.   |July  28.|   18    | 8    2    0  |10    1    0  | 15
     6.   |Sept.  8.|   16    |10    2    0  |10    2    0  | 14
     7.   |Sept.  8.|   16    |10    2    0  |11    0    0  | 10
    11.   |Aug.  25.|   16    | 9    1    0  | 9    2    0  | 11
          |         +---------+--------------+--------------+-----
  Average,|         |   16    |              |              | 12
  --------+---------+---------+--------------+--------------+-----

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