Comparative Expense of Mechanical and Hand Milking (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Frank Ashmore Pearson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331479942
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Excerpt from Comparative Expense of Mechanical and Hand Milking Investigations conducted by experiment stations and the experience of a large number of dairymen have shown the practicability of mechanical milkers from the standpoint of their effect upon production, upon the quality of the milk, and upon the physical condition of the cows. The object of this study was to compare the expense of mechanical and hand milking in herds of different sizes. Data were obtained from 32 Illinois dairy farms on which 860 cows were milked mechanically and from 34 farms on which 850 cows were milked by hand. The farms were, as nearly as possible, comparable in respect to efficiency of management and methods of dairying except as to the method of milking. The average annual expense of caring for a cow milked mechanically was Man labor constituted percent of the total expense; power, percent, and mechanical milker, percent. The average annual expense 'of caring for a cow milked by hand was or more than the average expense of caring for a cow milked by machine. The labor requirement was hours per cow per annum for the cows milked by hand as compared with hours for the cows milked mechanically. In herds of less than 25 cows, the average annual expense of caring for cows milked mechanically was per cow, and in herds of 25 cows or more, per cow. This difference was made up of differences of in labor expense, in power expense, and 64 in mechanical milker expense in favor of the larger herds. No significant difference in expense of hand milking, due to size of herd, was found. 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.