dairy cake
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dairy cake (countable and uncountable, plural dairy cakes)
- (agriculture, usually uncountable) A type of cattle cake formulated specifically to meet the nutritional requirements of dairy cows.
- Hypernym: cattle cake
- dairy cake or meal
- 1924 March, G.H. Garrad, quotee, “Interim Report on Food Records, November 15, 1923, to February 1, 1924, by G.H. Garrad”, in The Dairyman: The Cowkeeper and Dairyman's Journal[1], volume 46, number 7, page 359:
- The production ration consisted of a mixture of bran, dried grains, protos, soya meal, and SBS dairy cake; 4 lbs. per gallon of milk. This also was a very suitable ration. It cost 24.88 pence per cow per day or 6.67 pence per gallon of milk. The lowest cost of feeding per cow per day (10.65 pence) refers to a herd of 14 Shorthorn cows averaging 16.07 lbs. of milk. The ration consisted of 10 lbs. tare and oat hay, 23 lbs. wet grains, 0.6 lbs. protos, 0.8 lbs Bibby dairy cake, and 0.6 lbs. maize gluten food. The cost of food per gallon of milk was 6.63 pence.
- 1926, G.H. Garrad, The Principles of Dairy-Farming (The Farmer And Stock Breeder Manuals)[2], Ernest Benn Ltd, page 119:
- The selection of suitable cakes and meals for the production ration will depend on prices and whether the home-grown foods with which they are to be blended are rich in protein or otherwise. Small farmers who have got only five or six cows may find it difficult to purchase a few hundredweights of several different foods, and they are justified, so long as the price is reasonable, in buying a well-balanced proprietary dairy cake or meal of a reputable firm that is beyond suspicion of using inferior ingredients. On the other hand, there is every reason why a large herd owner should avoid middlemen's profits by buying his feeding stuffs separately and making up his own mixture.
- 1961, Adrian Bell, My Own Master, Faber and Faber, pages 224-225:
- On the journey home to milking, along the green lane to the farmstead, Christmas walked last. The other cows were purposeful, knowing dairy cake awaited them. Let nothing get in their way: they trotted. But Christmas dawdled in the lane, last, alone, safe from hustling, and enjoyed a feast of her choice [browsing on hedges].