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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

To ascertain the quantity of excrement, the contents of the tanks into
which the cows had dropped their solid and liquid excrement during five
weeks were weighed, and found to be 500 cwt. 2 qrs. 0 lbs, from 18 cows,
being 88 lbs. per cow per day. The sample for analysis was taken from
that which the cows had deposited within the preceding 24 hours. This
was collected in the mud-cart, well blended, and sent off quite fresh.

It is sufficiently proved, by the experience of this district, that 20
pounds of meadow hay suffice for the maintenance of a cow of fair size
in store condition; a like result is stated to be obtained from 120
pounds of turnips per day. The six cows will have then required, during
the 27¹⁄₃ weeks, for their maintenance, only

  ------------------+------+-------+-------------+------+----+------
                    |      |       |             |Albu- |    |
                    |      | Total |             |minous|    |Starch,
          Per day.  |Weeks.|Weight.|             | mat. |Oil.|  &c.
  ------------------+------+-------+-------------+------+----+------
  lbs.|             |      | lbs.  |             | lbs. |lbs.|lbs.
  120 |of hay or for| 27¹⁄₃| 22,960|containing of| 2127 | 616|9130
  150 |of turnips,  |      |       |             |      |    |
      |or for       | 27¹⁄₃|137,760|    “      “ | 2295 | 306|9100
  ----+-------------+------+-------+-------------+------+----+------

They will further have required adequate food--

  -------------------------------------+--------+-------+------
                                       | Albumi-|       |
                                       |  nous  |       |Starch
                                       | matter,|       | and
                                       |fibrin, |  Oil  | sugar
                                       |  and   |  and  |  of
                                       |caseine.|butter.| milk.
  -------------------------------------+--------+-------+------
  For the production of                |  2,116 | 1,235 | 1,894
  And for maintenance by turnips,      |  2,295 |   306 | 9,100
                                       +--------+-------+------
                                       |  4,411 | 1,541 |10,994
  The food supplied is computed to have|        |       |
  contained                            |  5,459 | 1,345 |15,664
  -------------------------------------+--------+-------+------

I omit the minerals, which are observed to be in excess of the
requirements.

For the maintenance of a fair-sized cow, for one day, in a normal state,
the following elements seem adequate:

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