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ABOUT 25 MILLION COWS are kept for milking purposes
in the United States. The average yearly value of the feed
they consume amounts to about $50 per cow, which makes a
total feed bill of well over a billion dollars. Because of the
magnitude of this feed bill, any universal though slight improvement
in feeding for economical milk production is of
enormous importance to the Nation.
The most important factor in relation to the economy of milk
production is the quantity of milk produced per cow. Numerous
investigations have shown conclusively that, when the same
feeds and prices are considered, the cost of milk production
declines as yield per cow increases. Yield per cow depends
first upon the cow's natural or inherent producing capacity,
and secondly on how she is fed and cared for.
Most of the cows kept for milking purposes in the United
States are not fed in the most efficient manner. Some are
given more feed than they can utilize for milk production, but
a far greater number have the inherent ability to produce more
milk than they actually do. With the latter kind, improved
feeding practices would result in higher yield per cow and
therefore in more economical production. The purpose of this
bulletin is to state in simple terms some of the principles of
feeding and to describe practicable. economical, and efficient
feeding methods.
This bulletin supersedes Farmers' Bulletin 743, The Feeding
of Dairy Cows.
W~ashington~,l~ I ~)~. /~ci. Issued April 1930
Wahi to I). .November 1940
Revised November 1940
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Woodward, T. E. (Thompson Elwyn) & Nystrom, Amer Benjamin, 1885-. Feeding dairy cows., book, November 1940; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5887/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.