The Economy And Efficiency Of The Milking Machine

Author : MORRIS M. LINDSEY
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366777662
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book The Herring Bone Milking System written by MORRIS M. LINDSEY and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Herring Bone Milking System: Economic Appraisal, Labor Efficiency Analysis, and Adjustment Possibilities In the last few years, many important advances have been made in the production technology of feed grains, hay, and silage the crops that support the dairy enterprise. New and improved machinery, increased use of fertilizer and water, new hybrid seed varieties, and many other developments have contributed to an increase in production of feedstuffs per man and a reduction in man-hours of labor. In many instances, the unit cost of production of these crops has been lowered by these advances. By com parison, the labor costs per unit of produc tion in milking and handling the dairy herd have risen sharply. Comparative output per man-hour and returns to labor have lagged consistently behind those of many other farm enterprises. The most rapid way to overcome this lag is to milk more cows per man, but present milking systems and chore routines limit the number of cows that one man can handle. The operation and management of com mercial dairy farms are complex. On such farms, the daily chores, of which milking constitutes about 60 percent, amount to more than 50 percent of the total number of man hours required per year. Some gains have been made in dairy chore efficiency. Bulk tanks, pipeline milking systems, bulk feed handling, mechanical feeders, barn cleaners, and other improvements have done much to lessen the labor requirements on many dairy farms. However, the milking routine represents a phase of dairy work that has remained comparatively unchanged for many years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.