STOCK AND STALKS _A Book for the Dairy Farmer_ BY J. R. ROBERTS President Roberts Sanitary Dairy Lincoln and Sioux City Henry Westfall, Sales Agent, 126 So. 11th Street Midwest Bldg., Lincoln, Nebraska (All Rights Reserved) Copyright, 1921 BY J. R. ROBERTS STOCK AND STALKS CONTENTS CHAPTER I INTENSIVE VERSUS BY-PRODUCT DAIRYING 1 CHAPTER II THE DAIRY TYPE 17 CAPACITY TENDENCIES PHYSICAL DEFECTS DISEASES CHAPTER III THE PURE BRED SIRE 23 CHAPTER IV WHAT TO FEED 26 CHEMICAL ANALYSIS BALANCED RATIONS PASTURES HAY CORN FODDER SILAGE WITHOUT CORN SILAGE GRAIN FEED PREPARED FEEDS CHAPTER V HOW TO FEED 44 BALANCED RATIONS WATER CALF AND HEIFER FEEDING CHEMICAL ANALYSIS RATIONS FOR THE DAIRY COW CHAPTER VI VARIATIONS IN MILK TESTS 56 CHAPTER VII SUGGESTIONS FOR CONSTRUCTING A BARN 61 CHAPTER VIII MILKING 63 CHAPTER IX MILK PRODUCTS 66 BUTTER CHEESE COTTAGE CHEESE CREAM SKIM MILK WHEY CHAPTER X MARKET MILK 74 WEIGHT OF MILK LEGAL REQUIREMENTS CLEANLINESS SANITATION COOLING MILK CHAPTER XI EXPERIMENTS BEING TRIED OUT ON OUR DAIRY FARM 83 CHAPTER XII DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW 92 INTRODUCTION In writing this booklet I hope to put into it information valuable to the average farmer who keeps cows. I make no claim for this little book as an addition to dairy science. It is rather a subtraction. I mean that I have been careful to include only the most essential information. Where a great mass of scientific data is gathered, it takes discrimination to distinguish between matters of great and less importance. To do this discriminating and to point out the most essential things, as I see them, is the purpose of this undertaking.