Excerpt from Evaluating the Profitability of Irrigation of Northeastern Dairy Farms: An Illustration of How to Evaluate Alternative Methods of Solving Forage Supply Problems Associated With Expanding a Dairy Herd Knowing how much irrigation will cost is useful. An idea of the kinds of increases in yields which may result over a period of years from irriga tion is necessary. But equally important is a good idea of how irrigation compares with other methods of providing more forage for more milking cows. The major part of this bulletin is devoted to this problem. How does one go about comparing irrigation with other alternatives? What are the major alternatives to irrigation? What happens when these alternatives are compared for a typical farm situation? Presentation of a method of finding answers to these last three questions is the primary objective of this report. Irrigating a forage crop will be compared with. 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.

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Abstracts for Dec. 1954- issued in the Agricultural Research Service's series ARS-41.