The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-04-08
FARM IN ID HOUSEHOLD.
We Should Raise More Calves.

The profit from the cows in butter and
cheese is often considered the chief thing,
and the calves are killed when four or five
days old, or as soon as their stomachs have
become accustomed to food and its diges-
ton and are in condition to be used as rem
net, the skin of a calf is worth about $l.25,
and the stomach or rennct 2j cents.
In view of the high price of all kinds of
cattle for the past few years something
should be done to prevent this annual
slaughter.
The remedy which | would suggest, is
that these calves should be raised instead
of being offered up as holocaust on the altar
of mammon; for this and nothing else it is.
Dairymen have an idea that the raising of
young stock will interfere with butter max
ing.
Let us consider whether we cannot recon-
Gle these apparently conflicting interests,
and whilst butter and cheese continue to be
produced, stock of young cattle may at
the same time be coming on, in which there
will also be money
Cheese makers themselves may raise
calves with very little trouble. When the
calf is two or three weeks old, whey, or
skim milk with oil-meal may be substituted
for new milk without detriment to the
calf, and at a considerable saving in the
cost of food. The change, however, from
new milk to skim milk and oil-meal, or to
whey and oil-meal, should be very gradual,
and may be made by increasing the guam
tity of the skim milk or whey, and dimin-
ishing the quantity of new milk from feed
ing to feeding until the change is effected
My practice (which do not claim to be
the best; but which has been very satisfac-
tory to me- is as follows: AS soon as l
commence making cheese every day, dip
off sufficient whey for the nights feeding
as soon as it separates from the curd, and
heat it boiling hot; then having wet up in a
small quantity of whey or water the amount
of oil meal l wish to feed at night, put it
into tub or cask white oak or ash is best
and turn on the boiling whey. This will
cook the oil-meal sufficiently, and at the
same time prevent the whey from souring,
even during the most unfavorable weather,
and if covered up will be warm enough to
feed at night when the weather is COOL and
uncovered will be about the right tempera-
ture go degrees when the weather is warm.
For the mornings feed use whey alone,
and take it from the vat as soon as whey
gets up to about 90o which it soon does, in
the process of cooking the cheese. If oil
meal is used with skim milk to feed calves,
it should be cooked by turning upon it suf-
ficient boiling water to cook it thoroughly,
but in either case it is necessary to first
wet the meal, to prevent its Jumping, Oil
meal, or what is the same thing, oil cakes
ground fine, IS the best substitute for the
fatty matter taken from the milk in the
manufacture of butter and cheese that
have found, and calves fed upon it, cooked
and fed as above directed, will do we'll
without any new milk.
To I,
stopped as soon as possible by diminishing
the quality or quantity of feed, or by add
ing a solution of rennet or decoction of
hemlock or oak bark, or of the plant called
"snake' s-head," "hog' s-tooth,'' or "bella-
DONNA a very bitter plant that grows in
lowlands, and has white blossom from
the shape of which it has received its first
name. Chalk put within their reach is
preventive, if eaten. Dry earth is also
used.
Those who keep cows to sell milk, may
be benefited by a word in regard to the
practice of a gentleman in Chester county,
a practical as well as book farmer, who
sells milk and still raises calves from his
thorough Durham cows. He gives
them milk four weeks when their diet is
changed to oil meal cruel, made by putting
at the rate of one pound of oil meal to fif-
tceu vi WAFER, auu DollllS nllI an nour,
giving about this quantity to each twice
day. His calves do well, and as milk is six
cents per quart, sixteen quarts would be
ninety-six cents; oil meal at three and one
fourths cents per pound, cost six and one
half cents per day. If, however, milk was
fed it probably would be skinned milk,
which would reduce the expense. l could
fill this sheet with names of men who have
raised good large calves upon Il mixed diet
of SKINNED milk, hay tea, or cruel of diff
ferent kinds of meal.
Calves should be kept separate, each in a
pen or tied by itself, as they injure each
other by butting and sucking.
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