Milk Production on the Elephant Butte Irrigation Project, Extension Circular 99
Serial publication focused on agricultural research and resources available to state residents through the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Information
Series - Circular
Collection name - NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1889-Present
Date - 1929-04
Decade - 1920s
Author - Hauter, L. H.
Contributor - Hunter, Byron
- Cunningham, O. C.
- Anderson, E. E.
Subject (LCSH) - Rio Grande Project (U.S.)
- Milk yield--New Mexico--Mesilla Valley
- Milk yield--Texas, West
- Irrigation--New Mexico--Mesilla Valley
- Irrigation--Texas, West
- Dairying--New Mexico--Mesilla Valley
- Dairying--Texas, West
Subject (NALT) - milk production
- irrigation
- dairy farming
- New Mexico
- Texas
Table of contents - Introduction
- Adaptability of the project to dairy farming
- Production requirements and costs
- Nature of records secured
- Principal cost items
- Credits
- Net farm cost of producing milk and butterfat
- Causes for variation in costs
- Production per cow
- Cost of feed
- Choice of feeds
- Waste of hay
- Efficient use of labor
- Summary of average milk and butterfat costs
- Net returns per animal unit, per cow and per herd
- Costs and net returns under varying conditions
- Cost of production with feeds at different prices
- Returns per cow with different prices for feeds and milk
- Cost and net returns for cows of different production
- Net returns from dairying compared with returns from crop production
- Cost of total digestible nutrients per pound and its use in determining the ration
- Cost of total digestible nutrients per pound
- Feeding practices on project
- Balancing ration on basis of feed requirements and costs
- Appendix
Extent - 32 pages
Notes - Circular containing information on the costs and returns of dairy farming on the Elephant Butte Irrigation Project
Original publisher - United States Department of Agriculture
- New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
- Cooperative Extension Service
Place of publication - State College (N.M.)
Frequency - frequency varies
Digital publisher - New Mexico State University Library
Source - NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES)
Language - English
Type - Text
Format - application/pdf
Medium (AAT) - newsletters
Genre (AAT) - periodicals
Access rights - Open to re-use
Metadata cataloger - Bramlett, Suzanne
- Schneider, Ingrid
- Roth, Michael
Digital identifier - UAAPc000099.pdf
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