The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-04-26

Like everything else pertaining TO a
farm, raising calves requires good judg-
ment and experience. 1t is best always
to leave the calf with the COW several
days, until the fever is out Of the bag
and .he milk good for family use, and
with proper management the call can be
easily taught to drink mix when four or
five days old. 1t is important o""t the
calf should take its first sustenancc from
the COW. If a calf is of no value to
rear, or if the milk is worth more than
the cost of feeding four or five weeks for
the butcher, it should be killed as soon
as the milk becomes good, but if it is to
be raised, it should have pure milk for
about ten days, when little skinned
milk may be added to the unskimmed
by degrees, till it may be fed entirely on
skinned milk. 1t has been shown by
abundant tests that calves will thrive as
well on the poorest butter producing
milk as ON the best consequently, if a
farmer has any COWS which give poor
milk, that should be fed to calves, be-
cause it il not the cream that nourshcs
them 80 much AZ other properties Of the
milk. When four or five weeks old they
may be fed on buttcrmilk.
II is good management TO feed calves
in connection with their milk, when
about ten days old, a little cooked meal
At first, take nearly Il tablespoonful oj
Indian, oat, or barely meal, and cook il
in II little water then mix it with the
milk, and increase the quantity Of meaI
AZ the calves grow older. Flaxseed
boiled to n Jelly and mixed with milk
when the calves are ten days old, is good
for them. 1t is poor policy to stint
calves which are worth raising, as Their
future development AS good cows depends
in great degree ON the manner in which
they are treated when calves. let then
be fed three times day at regular hours
and as much as will satisfy them, and in
the end their owners will never be loser
by so doing Look ut the poor, unsightly
animals in the yards of farmers who hall
starve their calves to save Il few gents
and you have occuar demonstration OF
what stintugcalves in their feed wllldo
When calves are old enough to begin
to eat hay or grass. if confined in stable
or yard, a little fine, sweet hay, or grass,
should be placed within their reach. 1t
may be tied with cord, and suspended
where they can nibbIe at it, and in few
weeks, when about four months old, they
may be turned ont to pasture, still giving
them little meal and water once Il day
for week or two They should have
fresh water in their pasture, which
should produce an abundance of good
grass, and they will 90 into winter quar-
tiers in fine condition. Then let them
he fed on good, fine, sweet hay, with
| fodder corn (swscO cut and cured AT
soon az it begins to tassel; and little
meal of any kind and when they are
two or three years old you will have
stock that you will not be ashamed tC
have your neighbors see. Even the
milk that such cows will give will be
much more than if they were poorly fec
when calves. There is no Use in {
farmer expecting to raise fine stock o
any kind, unless he attends thorough.
to thes wants through all the stages o
their growth. II he grows u good crol
of corn it must he fed, and the weed
cxtermnated-n halfway work; AM
the same rule applies TO his livestock
RWm Ncm Yorker.