The Bacillus of Long Life: A Manual of the Preparation and Souring of Milk for Dietary Purposes, Together with an Historical Account of the Use of Fermented Milks, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, and Their Wonderful Effect in the Prolonging of Human ExistenceDouglas, Loudon M.
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The Bacillus of Long Life: A Manual of the Preparation and Souring of Milk for Dietary Purposes, Together with an Historical Account of the Use of Fermented Milks, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, and Their Wonderful Effect in the Prolonging of Human Existence
Douglas, Loudon M.
Fermented milk; Longevity
Of these about 300,000 were heifers that had not yet
produced any milk. The actual milking class, therefore,
comprised about 4,100,000 cows and heifers; of these,
about 600,000 were heifers that calved in the winter and
spring of 1909-10, and 300,000 were heifers that calved in
the summer and autumn of 1910. The number of cows that
produced two or more calves may be taken to be about
3,200,000; of these about 600,000 should have produced
their second calf in the winter and spring 1909-10, and
would be milked as heifers in the summer and autumn of
1910; the number of mature cows from which a full season's
supply of milk was obtained during the twelve months from
June 5, 1909, to June 4, 1910, was apparently about
2,600,000. A large quantity of milk is yielded during the
year by cows sold or lost during the twelve months before
the census. Possibly ten per cent. of the milk produced in
the twelve months from June, 1909, to June, 1910, was
yielded by cows that were sold or lost before the census
of June, 1910.
It is estimated that the 3,200,000 cows (including the
600,000 that up to the winter of 1909-10 were heifers)
produced, on the average, 44 cwts. (480 gallons) of milk
per head in the twelve months from June 5, 1909, to June
4, 1910; the 300,000 heifers that calved in the summer and
autumn, 30 cwts. (330 gallons) per head; the 600,000
heifers that calved in the winter and spring of 1909-10,
15 cwts. (165 gallons), making the total quantity of milk
produced in the twelve months by cows and heifers on the
farms, and that produced calves during the twelve months
(June, 1909-1910), 158,800,000 cwts. (1,746,800,000
gallons), or about 426 gallons per head, and about 400
gallons per head for all the cows and heifers in milk or
in calf in 1910. There remains to add the milk yielded by
the cows that were sold during the twelve months, and of
cows and heifers in feeding pastures that were milked
during the twelve months, June to June, 1909-10, and which
probably formed one tenth of the whole supply, making the
total supply for the twelve months 176,444,000 cwts., or
1,940,884,000 gallons. This equals 2 tons, or 440 gallons
per head, crediting the whole supply to the 4,400,000 cows
and heifers in milk or in calf in June, 1910. At 7-1/4d.
per gallon the value of milk produced in the United
Kingdom in the twelve months was £58,600,000. Including
the value at birth of the calves, the total value of the
produce of the milk-giving class would be about
£62,000,000. The value of the milk, butter, cheese, and
cream sold or consumed in farmhouses would be about
£48,000,000, or equal to about 24 per cent. of the gross
annual income of farmers.
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