Dairy Cattle Feeding and Management

xxvi, 557 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; The Relation of Dairying to Agriculture; The Components of Plants and Animals; The Work of Digestion; The Use of Food in the Body; Milk Secretion; Selection of Feeds; Desirable Characteristics of a Ration; The Development of Feeding Standards; Balancing Rations for Individual Cows; Balancing Rations for the Herd; Feeding for Milk Production; Feed and Management of Cows on Test; Effect of Abnormal and Unusual Rations; Silage and Silos; Hay and Haymaking; Pastures; Soiling Crops and Summer Silage; Some Details in Dairy Cattle Management; Raising the Dairy Calf; Care and Development of the Dairy Heifer; Feeding and Care of the Sire; The Principles of Dairy-Cattle Breeding; The Selection of the Sire; Dairy Herd Development; Keeping Records on the Dairy Farm; Production Records; Fitting Dairy Animals for Show; Common Diseases of Dairy Animals; Dairy Barns--Construction and Arrangement; Dairy Barn Equipment; The Production of High-grade Milk; Methods of Marketing Milk; Milk Production, Cost Accounts, Principles and Methods; Laboratory Exercises; Appendix Tables; Index.