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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

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                  |           Practical values, as obtained by
                  |         experiments in feeding, according to
                  +------+------+------+------+------+---------+--------
      ARTICLES    |      |      |      |      |      |         |Schweit-
      OF FOOD.    |Block.|Petri.|Meyer.|Thaër.|Pabst.|Schwertz.|  zer.
  ----------------+------+------+------+------+------+---------+--------
  English Hay,    |100   |  100 |  100 |  100 |  100 |   100   | 100
  Lucerne,        |  -   |   90 |   -  |   90 |  100 |   100   |  -
  Red Clover-hay, |100   |   90 |   -  |   90 |  100 |   100   |  -
  Red Clover      |      |      |      |      |      |         |
  (green),        |430   |   -  |   -  |  450 |  425 |    -    |  -
  Rye-straw,      |200   |  500 |  150 |  666 |  350 |    -    | 267
  Oat-straw,      |200   |  200 |  150 |  190 |  200 |   400   | 200
  Carrot-leaves   |      |      |      |      |      |         |
  (tops),         |  -   |   -  |   -  |   -  |   -  |    -    |  -
  Swedish Turnips,|  -   |  300 |   -  |  300 |  250 |   200   |  -
  Mangold Wurzel, |366   |  400 |  250 |  460 |  250 |   333   | 366²⁄₃
  White Silician  |      |      |      |      |      |         |
  Beet,           |  -   |   -  |   -  |   -  |   -  |    -    |
  Carrots,        |366   |  250 |  225 |  300 |  250 |   270   | 300
  Potatoes,       |216   |  200 |  150 |  200 |  200 |   200   | 200
  Potatoes kept in|      |      |      |      |      |         |
  pits,           |400   |   -  |   -  |   -  |   -  |    -    |  -
  Beans,          | 30   |   54 |   50 |   73 |   40 |    -    |  30
  Peas,           | 30   |   54 |   48 |   66 |   40 | Boussin-|  30
                  |      |      |      |      |      |  gault  |
  Indian Corn,    |  -   |   52 |   -  |   -  |   -  |    59   |  -
  Buckwheat,      |  -   |   64 |   -  |   -  |   -  |    -    |  -
  Barley,         | 33   |   61 |   53 |   76 |   50 |    -    |  35
  Oats,           | 39¹⁄₂|   71 |   -  |   86 |   60 |    -    |  37¹⁄₂
  Rye,            | 33   |   55 |   51 |   71 |   50 |    -    |  33¹⁄₂
  Wheat,          | 27   |   52 |   46 |   64 |   40 |    -    |  30
  Oil-cake        |      |      |      |      |      |         |
  (Linseed),      | 42   |  108 |   -  |   -  |   -  |    -    |  43
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The reader will find no difficulty in making this table of practical
value in deciding upon the proper course of feeding to be pursued.

In winter the best food for cows in milk will be good sweet meadow hay,
a part of which should be cut and moistened with water, as all inferior
hay or straw should be, with an addition of root-crops, such as turnips,
carrots, parsnips, potatoes, mangold wurzel, with shorts, oil-cake,
Indian-meal, or bean-meal.

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