Nineteenth Biennial Report of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts Made to the Governor of Iowa

Download or read book Nineteenth Biennial Report of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts Made to the Governor of Iowa written by Iowa State College of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nineteenth Biennial Report of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts Made to the Governor of Iowa: For the Years 1900-1901 The dairy herd investigation has been carried on continuously throughout the biennial period, and the results of over three years' work are now being prepared for publication in bulletin form. This work represents a careful record of the college dairy herd, including five pure breeds of cattle, showing the actual daily cost of feed consumed and the net returns in milk and but ter fat, and the value of the product on the market at commercial prices, thus giving the net profit or loss of every cow in the herd of each breed during the period of over three years covered by the experiment. 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.