Extracts-Cattle Breeding and Dairy Industry

Abstract

How to provide suuficient food of a wholesone manure for milch cattle is another problem which is receiving close attention on Government Farms.No matter what potentialities have been bred into a cow, she will fail to give a big yield of milk if given too little or unwholesome food. In India. generally there are no pastors worthy of the name.and fodder crops as such are not commonly grown.In most parts of the country. moreover many useless cattle are kept which get a share of the very limited supply of fodder available to the detriment of those that are deserving of better tratment. Under these conditions no great improvement can be effected by better breeding without first improving the food supply : better feeding is as iportant as better breeding ii short.On Government dairy farms much attention is being paid to this question of co feeding : inscious fodders unknown in India 20 years ago such as Berseem(Egyptian clover)have been introduced and methods of storing green fodders in silos adopted. The question of how to make silage most economically has been discussed at great length at meetings of the Board of Agriculture and in some provinces the making of silage in kutcha pits is now being demonstrated in the districts.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002018

Pages

67 - 71

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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