. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. March 25, 1905] ©he gsreeber mtfj gtpQvtetxtcm 13. Feeding Dairy Cows. Prof. E. W. Clark of the Agricultural College, at Logan, Utah, at the State Dairy Convention presented a most ex- cellent paper, of which the following is a Bumtnary. In feeding cows, man i9 the moat important factor, and he, as well as the cow, should be of a dairy tendency, i Failure is more often due to the man than to the cow. He should be kind, j generous, intelligent, persevering and. always a student, and keep abreast of the times, ae much as the lawyer or doctor. If the greatest resu
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. March 25, 1905] ©he gsreeber mtfj gtpQvtetxtcm 13. Feeding Dairy Cows. Prof. E. W. Clark of the Agricultural College, at Logan, Utah, at the State Dairy Convention presented a most ex- cellent paper, of which the following is a Bumtnary. In feeding cows, man i9 the moat important factor, and he, as well as the cow, should be of a dairy tendency, i Failure is more often due to the man than to the cow. He should be kind, j generous, intelligent, persevering and. always a student, and keep abreast of the times, ae much as the lawyer or doctor. If the greatest results are to be obtained, he must treat his occupation as a pro- fession. The cow ia a very economical producer of the best kind of human food. One pound of dry matter in the milk is pro- duced from eight pounds of dry mat- ter in the food, while one pound of food in pork, mutton and beef is produced from 9, 21 and 27 pounds, respectively, of dry matter in the food. The cow is also a consumer of cheap food, and therefore economical. As to food, no other article can take the place of milk in man's diet. Two quarts of milk contain as much nutriment as a pound of sirloin steak. Many solid foods are digested better when consumed with milk, and as a diet for the sick, milk is The people of the United States, unfortunately, consume less than one-half pint of milk ^er person per day. The cow should be fed according to her needs; hence we need to understand the composition of her body, of the milK and of the food. A cow, to do her beBt, must have tood from wnich milk is made; food containing considerable protein or nitro- gen. To tnis claBB belong lucern, clover, bran, wneat, oatB, peas, Lucern is rich in milk-iorming material, and because of this, and its cneapneas, it is tne best single tood we nave for dairy cows. Bran is very much ut tne same composition, and lor tnat and other reasons, cows which are being fed lucern, should not have more than 1} or 8 pouu
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