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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

lbs.
  When dry or free from moisture,                   5230
                                                  ------
  Butter in 16,072 quarts, at 30 per 1000         = 1235
  Caseine in 16,072 quarts, at 48.2 per 1000,     = 1977
  Sugar of milk,                                  = 1804
  Minerals. {Phosphate of lime,             99}
            {Other,                        115}   =  214
                                                  ------
                                                    5230

  Gain of weight 500 lbs., of which I compute 300 lbs. as fat.
                                              200 lbs. as flesh.
                                              ---
                                              500

  Nitrogen,           316 lbs.
  Phosphate of lime,   99
  Phosphoric acid,   = 45.50
  Cost of food per cow per week,   8_s._ 6¹⁄₂_d._
  When the yield of milk is less, the cost of food is reduced to 7_s._
  8_d._ per week.

                            _s._   _d._
  Gross return in milk,      16      4
    “     “     “ weight,     1      6
    “     “     “ manure,     2      8
                             ---------
                             20      6

ANALYSIS OF EXCREMENT BY PROFESSOR WAY.

                      Per cent.
  Moisture,            84.85
  Phosphoric acid,       .39
  Potash,                .58
  Soda,                  .22
  Other substances,    13.96
                      ------
                      100.

  Nitrogen,   .41
  Ammonia,    .49

  Manure, 88 lbs. per cow per day.
  For 6 cows per day 528 lbs. = 3696 lbs. per week.
   “  “   “  for 27¹⁄₃ weeks 101,028 lbs., containing of
             Nitrogen,                                   414 lbs.
             Phosphoric acid,                            393
             Potash,                                     585

  Nitrogen incorporated in food,             888 lbs.
           Caseine,                   316.
           Fibrin,                      7.35
           Manure,                    414.
  Balance consumed in perspiration,   150.65
                                      ------
                                      888.00

  The materials of food are shown to have cost  £70 0_s_  9_d._

                                                           £.  _s._ _d._
  Gross value 16,072 quarts of milk, at 2_d._ per quart,  133   18     8
  Gain of weight 500 lbs., at 6_d._ per lb.,               12   10     0

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