Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-06-27
AGRICULTURAL.
TFEpTNG CALyFS.

This is the season when calves do most
abound and As the calf OF to-day is the
Young bullock of to morrow, too great at
teution cannot be paid to this foundation
of he beef supply. The cattle raisers Of
the West have wisely determined that the
COW may be turned 10 better account than
merely 10 suckle her calf. To keep a COW
u year simply 10 raise 4 calf, makes the
calf quite too expensive ON high-priced
Lands, when the end in Wow is beef: and
that IL the end in nmetv-nine cases out of
. hundred The milk of the COW, proper
ly manufactured. or sold for human con-
sumption. has more value than the calf at
the end Of The year. The calf needs only
To get q good start on the milk of the dam,
when her milk may afterwards he manu-
factured into batter and cheese, and be
come a large source oflncome whilst the
calf NAV cJntinue the rapid growth he
commenced on his mothers milk, with the
proper use only OF the skim-milk and
other food Il T. not necessary that the
calf should be cled in its growth by
the change. Our knowledge of the COM
bination Of foods has been greatly en-
larged during the last twenty years : and
We are naJ confined to any one formula
in feeding our animals We can, in fact,
closely imitlta the milk of the dam in
several ways. The calf, in sucking its
dam. receives the most perfect of foods,
containing every ingredient required II
grow a perfect animal
IN using tIa milk for butter making,
the cream or oil is nearly all removed; ;
otherwise the milk is the same. Now, if
we restore the oil skinned from the milk,
We have restored its entire constitution as
d foed, except, perhaps, its sweet condi-
ton. But in the more recent methods of
extracting the cream, the milk is left per
fecilv sweet: and when. ON adding n
proper vegetable oil-such as that from
hnseed-wn have restored the milk prac-
ticallv to it, original state, and II will
hgec tht sam, eli..c, in calf feeding Ii
We add to each gallon of skinned milk
one clll cf hlE-s.ad. well boiled, we have,
for all practical feeding PulPpos, restored
the milk but. as many cannot obtain
lax-seed, two Eilis Of lnseed-meal added
to each gallon of milk will produce an eN-
crll-lt result Cuttun-seed meal Is found
less soluble and digestible, and is not to
be commended for Young calves. Skim
med milk in sufficient quantity will grow
GOOD calf alone with the addition of
hay cr grass. u Is peculiarly adapted 10
grow a largo and vigorous frame, for II
retains nearly all It's muscle-farming ele-
ments, its phosphate OF lime to build the
bones, its whey ur sugar to keep up ami
nal heat. and, by giving larger guam
tity. the fat required is formed in the
animal body ont of the alhuminoids and
the sugar 50 that n calf will retain its
plump condition. and make very s5tisfac-
tory Growth upon full feeding on skinned
milk After The calf is two months old,
it may he kept growing finely on other
foods. without any milk but the milk
should moi be discontinued if the farmer
has to feed. as it viii pay as well in devel-
oping the calf a. anything that can be
done with H.
The most import ant point we wish TO
impress upon the cattle raiser Is, that he
cannot afford. uuder any circumstances,
to neglect his calvts. One dollars worth
Of food given to calf under six months
old, which has never been neglected, will
produce more growth than two dollars
worth after that age on calves that have
been id poorly when Young. 1t takes
less food to produce the growth Of pound
on a calf the first month than the second.
and less the second than the third, and
less the third than ihe fourth month, and
so on. How iInprtoant If is, then, to
give all the food the cali can properly di
gest and assimilate when it Will produce
the best result? The greatestprofit always
comes from early feeding ANY neglect
in feeding calves when y"ugn entails a
double loss-the loss Of the growth. which
is an accumulated profit, and the I'M
thrifty condition which largely prevent
future growth. When farmers fully com
prehend the necessity for full feeding
while the animals are young. it Will rev
olutioniza meat production.-N NatioHai
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