Stock and stalks

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...

Agriculture as a science is comparatively new. It is not like civil engineering, for instance, which is taught about alike in all places, and much of it the same as was taught a...

=Capacity.= The first thing that we look for in a dairy cow is capacity--capacity to digest feed and to turn that feed into milk. The digestive and mammary systems of the cow sh...

There is one law of breeding that does not seem to be recognized by people generally and in our judgment it is of greatest importance. This law is that the influence of the pare...

=Chemical Analysis.= The chemical analysis of feed does not by any means tell the whole story. Wheat straw, for instance shows up very well in chemical analysis but experiments...

=Balanced Ration.= Cattle like variety in their feed. Not all cattle have the same tastes and desires. When one cow refuses to eat her grain, it is well to try her on some other...

“It is a well-known fact that the percentage of butter fat in the milk of cows increases very materially toward the end of a period of lactation. There are also other slight cha...

Since there is so much information available concerning construction of barns, it is not necessary for me to discuss it here except to criticize the standard forms. On most farm...

The cow’s milk is partly manufactured in the udder at the time it is being drawn. The process is like digestion and is interfered with by any nervous tension or shock. The prick...

=Butter.= The law requires that butter contain 80% butter-fat and that it shall contain less than 16% moisture. In 100 pounds of creamery butter there is usually about 3 pounds...

=Weight of Milk.= The weight of milk varies slightly with the temperature and also because of the difference in the amount of solids it contains. An average gallon of milk at 60...

On our farm we are equipping to produce certified milk. This will be a new business for us. When we have had more experience along this line we may write up the results for publ...

Even though I have a farm that at one time I went in debt for and which I paid for by milking cows, and even though I have spent more of my working years on a farm than in an of...