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dairy cake

dairy cake noun: a type of cattle cake formulated specifically to meet the nutritional requirements of dairy cows.

Noun

dairy cake (countable and uncountable, plural dairy cakes)

  1. (uncountable, usually) A type of cattle cake formulated specifically to meet the nutritional requirements of dairy cows.
    • dairy cake or meal
    • 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)...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, volume 46, number 7...

Examples of dairy cake in a sentence

  • The production ration consisted of a mixture of bran, dried grains, protos, soya meal, and SBS dairy cake; 4 lbs. per gallon of milk.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 other cows were purposeful, knowing dairy cake awaited them.1961, Adrian Bell, My Own Master, Faber and Faber, pages 224-225:

Forms of dairy cake

pluraldairy cakes

Questions about dairy cake

What does dairy cake mean?
Dairy cake means a type of cattle cake formulated specifically to meet the nutritional requirements of dairy cows.
How do you use dairy cake in a sentence?
The production ration consisted of a mixture of bran, dried grains, protos, soya meal, and SBS dairy cake; 4 lbs. per gallon of milk.
What part of speech is dairy cake?
Dairy cake is a noun.
What is the plural of dairy cake?
The plural of dairy cake is dairy cakes.

Words near dairy cake in the dictionary

  1. Dairsie
  2. dairy
  3. Dairy Arm
  4. dairy bar
  5. dairy bars
  6. dairy cake
  7. dairy cakes
  8. dairy cattle
  9. dairy cow
  10. dairy cows
  11. dairy farm

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