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Ten Year Dairy Herd Record From Nebraska Station
Nebraska experiment station kept 160 yearly dairy records from 1896 to 1906 for a herd that grew from ten to 27 cows. Jerseys Holsteins and a few others produced an average 6513 pounds of milk and 333 pounds of butter per cow annually. Key findings link lactation length to fat percentage, milk flow to fat test, and value of individual milk and butter fat records to herd management. Estimated net earnings per cow about 40 dollars yearly, with feed costs around 30 dollars and butter fat value about 70 dollars.
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