. Productive dairying . Dairying. THE COW VS. THE STEER 5 twenty-nine per cent of what she consumes, while the flesh- forming animal, the steer, and in all likelihood the fattening cow as well, retains as flesh scarcely foui-teen per cent. That is to say, that for every 100 imits of digestible feed consumed by the normal cow, 29 will be recovered in the milk and 71 lost in the process of transforming, while for every 100 units fed to a steer but 14 will be returned to man as edible flesh and 86 will be FlQ. 1.—-Belle—twenty-two and one-half year old Holstein cow still yielding 40 pounds
. Productive dairying . Dairying. THE COW VS. THE STEER 5 twenty-nine per cent of what she consumes, while the flesh- forming animal, the steer, and in all likelihood the fattening cow as well, retains as flesh scarcely foui-teen per cent. That is to say, that for every 100 imits of digestible feed consumed by the normal cow, 29 will be recovered in the milk and 71 lost in the process of transforming, while for every 100 units fed to a steer but 14 will be returned to man as edible flesh and 86 will be FlQ. 1.—-Belle—twenty-two and one-half year old Holstein cow still yielding 40 pounds milk per day. She has had twenty-one strong calves. She had strong twins at the age of 21 years. During this period she has produced about 200,000 pounds milk, containing fully - 25,000 pounds of solid food. She has been fed on corn silage, clover hay, roots, corn, oats and oil meal. Property Washburn Children's Home, Minneapolis, Minn. Photo by the author. A cow that yields 6000 pounds of 5 per cent milk in one year will yield 900 pounds of food solids or pounds per day, which is as much as can be expected in gross gain, bone, blood, water in tissue, and all, in the steer. A cow that produces 12,000 pounds of milk testing about per cent fat and about 12 per cent total solids will produce 1440 pounds of food, or nearly pounds per day. If comparison be made with one of the modem high-produc- ing Holsteins such, for instance, as Lady Oak Fobes De Kol of the Minnesota Station, we find, as pointed out by Professor Haecker, that the 22, pounds of milk that she yielded in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Washburn, Robert Mann, 1874-. Philadelphia ; London : J. B. Lippincott Company
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