Dairy Cattle Selection : Feeding and Management

Contents: I. Dairy farming contributes to national welfare: 1. Dairy farming is a great and abiding industry. 2. Shall I become a dairy farmer? II. Selecting and breeding dairy cattle: 3. Selecting the dairy cow. 4. Selecting a breed. 5. Examining the principles of heredity. 6. Employing the principles of heredity in dairy cattle improvement. 7. Artificial breeding. III. Feeding dairy cattle: 8. Feeding the dairy cow during the winter season. 9. Feeding the dairy cow during the pasture season. 10. Studying the composition and preparation of feeds. IV. Managing dairy cattle: 11. Managing the dairy herd. 12. Determining milk and butterfat yields. 13. Feeding and managing the dairy bull. 14. Raising the dairy calf. 15. Raising dairy heifers. 16. Preventing illness in the diary herd. 17. Fitting animals for exhibition and sale. 18. Merchandising dairy cattle. V. The financial aspects of dairy farming: 19. Factors affecting returns from the dairy farm. VI. Milk secretion; care and merchandising of milk: 20. The Mammary system, milk secretion and milking. 21. Factors affecting the quantity and composition of milk. 22. Protecting the quality of milk; merchandising dairy products from the farm. VII. Producing roughages for dairy cattle: 23. Grassland farming on dairy farms. 24. Improving dairy cattle pastures. 25. Making high quality hay for dairy cattle. 26. Making high quality silage for dairy cattle. VIII. Providing good buildings of dairy cattle: 27. Planning and equipping the dairy barn. IX. Looking into the future: 28. Insuring a sound basis for the future. 29. Dairy farming offers good opportunities for young people. Index.

The book Dairy Cattle will reflects the many new research findings and practices which have become known or put into use. In order that dairy students and dairy farmers may have the benefit of the latest information on the selection, breeding, feeding and management of dairy cattle as well as guides to good procedures for the growing of roughages for the dairy herd.

In preparing this book the aim of the authors has been to point out principles which students and dairy farmers may use as guides rather than to give explicit directions for doing every job, keeping in mind the fact new machines, new types of buildings, and new pieces of equipment may alter the matter in which the various operations are carried out.