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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

accompanied by relaxation, has shown no gain, whilst, with restored
consistency, the gain doubled.

I now proceed to examine the materials of food, their composition, and
the probable changes they undergo in the animal economy.

  _Quantity and description of food supplied to six cows during
  twenty-seven and a third weeks, and its composition in proximate
  elements and minerals._

  -----------+----+------+---------+----------+------
             |    | Total|         |          |Weight
             |    |weight|         |          |  of
             |    |  of  |  Cost   |          | food
             | Per| food |   per   |   Total  | when
             |day.|given.|  ton.   |   cost.  |dried.
  -----------+----+------+---------+----------+------
             |lbs.| lbs. |£  s.  d.| £  s.  d.| lbs.
  Meadow hay,|  56|10,715|4   0   0|19   2   9| 9,420
  Rape-cake, |  30| 5,740|6  10   0|16  12   0| 5,456
  Malt-combs,|   9| 1,722|5   9   0| 4   3   0| 1,660
  Bran,      |   9| 1,722|6  10   0| 5   0   0| 1,500
  Beans,     |   9| 1,722|9   6   8| 7   3   6| 1,500
  Green food,| 204|39,032|0  10   0| 8  14   6| 5,740
  Oat-straw, |  50| 9,566|1  15   0| 7   9   0| 8,407
  Bean-straw,|  12| 2,296|1  15   0| 7  16   0| 1,964
             +----+------+---------+----------+------
    Total,   | 379|72,515|         |70   0   9|35,647
  -----------+----+------+---------+----------+------

  -----------+--------+-------+-----+------+------
             | Albu-  |       |     |      | Min-
             |  men.  |Starch.| Oil.|Fibre.|erals.
  -----------+--------+-------+-----+------+------
             |   lbs. |  lbs. | lbs.|  lbs.|  lbs.
  Meadow hay,|   990  |  4,257|  287| 2,933|  953
  Rape-cake, | 1,803  |  2,177|  611|   494|  171
  Malt-combs,|   411  |    791|   51|   320|   88
  Bran,      |   246  |    800|   96|   258|  100
  Beans,     |   464  |    774|   34|   176|   53
  Green food,|   862  |  3,074|  115| 1,148|  541
  Oat-straw, |   287  |  3,066|  100| 4,526|  428
  Bean-straw,|   376  |    725|   51|   594|  217
             +--------+-------+-----+------+------
    Total,   | 5,439  | 15,664|1,345|10,449|2,551
             |= Nitro-|       |     |      |
             |  gen   |       |     |      |
             |888 lbs.|       |     |      |
  -----------+--------+-------+-----+------+------

ANALYSIS OF MILK BY HAIDLEN.

  Water,                   873.
  Butter,                   30.
  Caseine,                  48.2
  Milk sugar,               43.9
  Phosphate of lime,         2.31
  Magnesia,                   .42
  Iron,                       .07
  Chloride of potassium,     1.44
  Sodium and Soda,            .66
                          -------
                          1000.00

Production of milk by 6 cows, average 14 quarts per day each, for 27¹⁄₃
weeks = 16,072 quarts, which at 41 oz. per quart = 41,184 lbs.

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