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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

TABLE--CONTINUED.
  --------+----------------------+----------------+-------+------
          |        March 4.      |                |       | Gain
          +--------------+-------+                | Gain, |  in
          |              | Yield |                |Oct. 8 |weight
          |              |  per  |Computed average| to    |  per
    No.   |    Weight.   |  day. | per day during |Feb. 4.| week.
  --------+--------------+-------+----------------+-------+------
          |Cwt. qrs. lbs.|Quarts.|Weeks.     Qts. | Lbs.  | Lbs.
     1.   | 10   1    0  |   8   | 29    --  10   |  84   | 4
     2.   | 11   1    0  |  14   | 27    --  16   | 140   | 6³⁄₄
     4.   | 10   0    0  |  15   | 31    --  15   | 168   | 8
     6.   | 10   3    0  |  14   | 25    --  15   |  28   | 1¹⁄₃
     7.   | 11   0    0  |  10   | 25    --  13   |  56   | 2²⁄₃
    11.   |  9   2    0  |  11   | 27    --  13¹⁄₂|  28   | 1¹⁄₃
          +--------------+-------+----------------+-------+------
  Average,|              |  12   | 27¹⁄₃  --  14  |       |
  --------+--------------+-------+----------------+-------+------

My cows, during the period under consideration, were treated as follows:
During August and September they were on open pasture by day and housed
by night; evening and morning they were supplied with mown grass, and
two feeds of steamed mixture. Towards the close of September green rape
was substituted for the mown grass, with the same allowance of steamed
mixture; from the 8th of October, when they were wholly housed, they
were supplied with steamed food _ad libitum_ three times per day. After
each meal ten to twelve pounds of green rape-plant were given, and nine
pounds of hay per day till November; from that time steamed food with
cabbages or kohl rabi till the early part or February, when mangold
wurzel was substituted. It will be observed that I give hay and roots in
limited quantities, and the steamed food _ad libitum_. I prefer this to
apportioning the cake and other concentrated food in equal quantities to
each, as this steamed mixture contains more of the elements essential to
milk, and each cow is thus at liberty to satisfy her requirements with
it. Nos. 2 and 4, which have given the greatest quantity of milk, have
eaten more than their share; whilst No. 1, which has given the least
milk, has scarcely eaten more than half the quantity of steamed mixture
consumed by 2 or 4. The yield of milk and the live weights on the 4th of
February and the 4th of March scarcely vary. During February thirty-four
pounds of mangold were substituted for kohl rabi; with this change the
cows became mere relaxed. My experience in weighing, extending over
several years, has shown me that when animals, from change of food,
become more relaxed or more costive, their weighings in the former state
denote less, whilst in the latter they denote more, than their actual
gain in condition. I have known instances in which a month’s weighing,

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