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Excerpt from The Cost of Producing Minnesota Dairy Products, 1904-1909 Investigations of proper methods of feeding and of compounding rations have placed the feeding of dairy cows on a basis which is particularly exact. Scientific invention has given the world methods by which the daily productivity of a cow may be accurately deter mined and her value as a producer learned at any time. The care and shelter required for a cow used for dairy purposes has become a subject of popular interest, and every farmer and cow owner knows at least the advantage of the care which should be given an animal used in dairy production. In fact, because of the important position the cow holds In the economy of the farm, a propaganda has for years been conducted in favor of better and more advanced methods of care and feeding; as a result dairying is more nearly upon a factory basis than any other enterprise of the farm. 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.