Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1877-03-29
Farm unn housrbOln
Raising Calves.

Like everything else pertaining TO a
firm. raising calves requires good judy
meut and experience. Iii be-t always
10 leave the calf with the COW severa!
day. until the fever is out OF the bag
aud The milk good for family use, and
With proper management the calf can
be easily taught TO drink milk when four
or five DAYS Old. 1t is important that
tie calf should take it, first su,tenauce
from tho cow. to enable it to discharge
the fetal nutriment in IL stomach and
bowels, and to give it strength for it,
Igture development. Il a calf i OF no
value 10 rear. or if the milk i worth
more than the cost of feeding four or five
weeks for the butcher, 1t should be Kill
81 "a, soon a. the milk becomes good,
uut ii il i, 10 be raised, it should have
pure milk for about ten days. when a
little skinned milk may be added TO
the unskimmed by degrees, till II may
b. fed entirely on skinned milk. II has
been shown by abundant test. that
calves viii thrive a. well on the poorest
hHuer-producing milk a on the best:
consequently, il farmer has any Cow
which give poor milk, that should be
fed to calves, because It is not the cream
that nourishes them so much a. other
properties OF the milk. When four OF
i've weeks old they NAV be fed on but
ier-milk.
1t is good management 10 feed c-lves,
in connection with their milk, when
about 10 day. Old, . little cooked meal.
81 first, take nearly tablespoonful OF
Indian, oat, or barley meal, and cook
it in little water; then mix it with
the milk, and increase the quantity OF
meal a the calves grow older. Flax
seed boiled TO a jelly and mixed with
milk. when the calves are ID days old,
j, good for them. II is poor policy 10
stint calves which are worth raising, a.
their future development depends TO
great degree on the manner in which
they arc treated when calves. Let them
be ted three times a day at regular
hours, and as much as will satisfy them,
and in the end their owners will never
be losers by 50 doing. Look at the poor,
uneigAtly animals in the yards OF far
mers " no half ,tarve their calves to save
a Jew cents, and you have ocular de-
monsigation .of what -tiGting calves in
their feed Will do.
When calves are Old enough to begin
10 eat hav or grass, il confined in sta
bic or yaId, little fine, sweet hay. or
grass, should be placed within their
reach 1t may be tied with cord, and
suspended where they can nibblc at it,
and in a few weeks, when about four
months Old. they may be turned out to
pasture, s.ill give them little meal and
water once day for week or two.
They should have fresh water in their
pasture, which should produce All album
dance Of good grass, and they will 90
INTO winter quarters in fine condition.
Then, let them be fed on good, fine
sweet hay, with fodder corn, (sweeD
cut aud cured as soon as it begins to
t4sseI and a little meal Of any kind;
aud when lthcy are two or three years
old, Won viii have stock that you Will
not be ashamed TO have your neighbors
see Even the milk that such cows will
give, will be much more than if they
were poorly fed when calves. There is
Io use in farmer expecting to raise q
tiuc stock of any kind, unless he attends
thoroughly to their wants through all
the stages of their growth. II lie grows
good crop of corn, it must be fed, and
the weeds eXterminatcd-no halfway
work; and the same rule applies to his
live stock.-[EN.