Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-05-09
Cl Rearing Calves.


F. MAYNARD, ot jefferson Co., \. Y,
writes :" Ny manner of rearing calves is this :
Take them from the COW as soon as the milk
Is good, and learn them to drink on new milk.
l would not offer thea their first mess in less
than tu Give or eighteen hours after being taken
from the COW. Say remove them the middle
Of the afternoon and offer the lncS5eS the
next morning Back them into a corner to
prevent their wheeling about. get os,r!dc the
neck, and with boy to hOia the dish, put the
left hand on the top OF the head, and with
finger in his mouth, put his nose gently into
the milk, and If he has sense enough to be
worth raising, be will eat when he is hungry
When he sucks the finger readily, draw it
gently frcm his mouth and leave it resting
against his nose. In this way he will soon
learn to drink without anything in his mouth.
a give him new milk week or two, then
add q little warmed skinned milk, adding
more and by degrees, until he will drink all
skinned milk At the season when milk
Sours, add little sour. and repeat the p5o,
cess unit. lie will take all sour. | think thick
milk preferable to any other skinned milk
for calf.
=" DO rot say you can raise as good calf
on skinned as on new milk, but | do say to
raise one on new milk as good us | can on
skinned will cost five times as much. Oue er-
ror that many persons fall into in feeding
skinned milk is, they feed to much while the
calf is young Two or three quarts twice a
day is quite plenty for several weeis ; increase
the quantity as he gets older Two gallons at
a mess when he is three months old will 90
him no harm, and if he gets it three times q
day a. four months ali the better.
Many persons wean their calves by mid
summer would feed them as long as the
cows gave milk Good calves and good pigs
seldom grow well together I never knew
q man to get premium on both at the same
fair
Calves shoaId be kept warm and dry the
frstl winter, and fed on good hay. witt little
bran or shorts and dealt with gently
4 gentleman in this state. vino has had
considerable experience in rearing calves, re-
marks
There are two very good ways Of raising
calves besides letting them run with the cow
which is seldom done by calf-raiscrs. One
way is to let the calf run with the cow until
three or four days old, then put it in yard
and feed it new milk 70: three or four weeks,
when it may be fed on part skinned milk for
few days, when it may be fed entirely on
skinned milk, with the addition of little
meal or wheat shorts After two or three
weeks, the calves should be turned into a pas
ture by themselves where they can get plenty
Of grass and clear water, but they should
be fed with milk until three months old, when
the milk may be left of, and onIya little meal
or shorts given but they should receive some
other feed besides grass all along through
the fall and winter, when they will come out
as spry as deer, and their hair smooth and
glossy and free from lice or disease
The other way is. to put the calf to skim
med milk after the first week, and continue
feeding tue same until three months old, let
''ng the s"iE nave nnat srasa it will eat"