Show dairy cow as producer its a fact that a cow in 1 a given length leh of time produces about six times as much protein food material as a fattening steer A 1200 pound steer ste r in a year ye ar produces pr pounds of dry matter for human food and he I 1 then out of the picture A dairy airy d cow turning out pounds of milk produces 2200 pounds dr dry y matter for human food in addition gives birth to a calf and starts out doing the same trick all over again to produce this amount of milk our dairy cow had to consume upwards of eight or nine tons of feed in the form of grain high protein concentrates bay silage and pasture here is a factory taking in raw material annually that amounts to ten or eleven times her own weight wl then she turns out a product of a highly intricate formula that we weighs again six or eight times her own weight ht hoards dairyman |