DAIRY FARMING 



TABLE 4. PROPORTION OF FOOD EATEN BY VARIOUS CLASSES 

 OF LIVE STOCK THAT is RETURNED FOR HUMAN UsE 1 



1 Values as human food from U. S. Dept. Agr., Bulletin (Revised) 

 28. 



2 1000-pound cow giving 6000 pounds of 4 per cent milk based on Armsby's 

 feeding standard. 



3 Similar cow raised to 2 years on Armsby's standard, milked 5 years, 

 then sold as lean beef. 



4 Food eaten by 5191 cows, 1078 heifers, 874 calves, 158 bulls, in Dela- 

 ware County, New York. Pasture assumed to be one-third of the food. 

 Net product 24, 646,000 pounds milk, 100,000 pounds skim-milk, 260 pounds 

 butter, and 559 cows, 235 heifers, 62 bulls, 9 calves for beef. Most of 

 the calves were killed and thrown away at birth. 



5 Steer grown to 1000 pounds in 2 years, then fattened 200 pounds in 

 100 days by Armsby's standard. Meat counted as fat beef. 



6 All food eaten by a steer that grew to 1588 pounds in 3 years, assumed 

 to be fat beef. Ontario Agricultural College, Report, 1893, p. 122. 



7 Food and product of 1 hen, average of 1803 by the writer. 



8 All feed except grass for an average of 1803 hens and 60 roosters kept 

 one year, 2713 chickens raised. Net product 204,093 eggs above those 

 used for incubation, 1080 fowls and 1404 cockrels and pullets sold for meat, 

 4395 pounds, records kept by the writer. 



9 Hogs assumed to have eaten the same feed as 1 hen and to have made a 

 gain of 1 pound for 5 pounds of grain. 



