Feeding And Management Of Dairy Cattle For Official Production Classic Reprint

Author : S. H. Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332109296
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Care and Feeding of Dairy Cattle, Vol. 67 (Classic Reprint) written by S. H. Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Care and Feeding of Dairy Cattle, Vol. 67 A Great Increase in urban population over rural has made British Columbia a large Importer of dairy products, in the last few years our farmers have gone In for dairying more extensively, and the supply of dairy products Is beginning to overtake the demand. It will, however. be many years before the home market is fully supplied. The opportunities for the dairy-farmer are many. Dairying is and should be the backbone of our agriculture. The most prosperous Agricultural communities of the world, where intelligent farming reaches Its highest level, depend chiefly on dairying. Denmark, Holland, and the Island of Jersey are examples. There are many reasons why dairy-fanning is practiced on the highest-priced lands and pays good returns. The dairy cow is the most economical producer of food of all farm animals. A good cow giving about 7,500 lb. of average milk in a year will produce Tour times as much solid food as a well-fed steer during the same time. The hog comes next in order to the cow as a profit-maker, and hogs are generally raised on a dairy-farm to consume the skim-milk or buttermilk, thus enhancing the profits. Intelligent dairy-farming tends to conserve and Increase the fertility of the farm, unlike exclusive grain or fruit growing, which reduces fertility. The selling of dairy products takes away very little from the land, most of the fertility contained in the crops being returned to the soil in the barnyard manure. The manure from a well-fed cow Is worth $25 a year. Much of tills fertility Is taken from the air during the growth of the crops, the clovers grown being especially beneficial in adding nitrogen to the soil. Any foodstuff purchased by the dairy-funner also adds fertility to the farm. The foregoing explains why the average yield of wheat per acre in Denmark Is 42 bushels, England 32. and on this continent less than 20. An Important item is the low cost of freight on concentrated products like butter and cheese having much value in small bulk. Labour is distributed evenly throughout the year, winter as well as summer. Another advantage connected with dairy-farming is the steady market available and the certainty of returns. Market prices for dairy products vary but little from year to year. Dairy products are food necessities, while some farm products arc more or less luxuries. Moreover, the market Is close at hand. "There is no market like the home market." and that is very far from being supplied by home production. Although returns at any one Mine arc not large, they are coming In the whole year through. Thus intelligent dairy-farming is not at all speculative, but is essentially "safe" farming. Dairying Districts. The Coast districts of British Columbia are most favorable to dairying. In these sections the industry is most developed, especially in the Lower Fraser Valley and on Vancouver Island, A mild, moist climate with a long growing season, together with proximity to large markets, make these the premier dairy districts of the Province. A large amount of fresh milk is required by Vancouver, Victoria, and other centers of population. In addition, twenty creameries are in operation in the Coast sections. Seven of these are farmers' co-operative creameries, and the rest are owned by city milk companies. Three condensed-milk factories are operated, two on the Mainland and one on Vancouver Island. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com