The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-07-09
Raise the Calves.

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farmers who will give away d pure
Attorney calf rather than to take
the trouble Of raising it. A writer
inan exchange says thatatleast two
good calves can be raised from the
SKINNED milk Of each COW kept, and
that the entire. expense Of keeping
the cows cansbe paid for from this
source, leaving the butter as clear
profit AS few village residents are
so situated as to raise their calves he
advises dairy-men to procure these
calves, as they are generally OF good
stock and can be had for almost
nothing. He gives his plan of rails;
ing them as follows: At the season.of
the year3when we can turn on grass
q calf will need but little milk after
il is three months old ifit has been
taught to eat; and, if IL can be had,
second calf can take its place. ]
believe ] have improved on the
plan recommended at the Cleveland
Convention-that Of feeding oil meal.
] use instead the fax-seed, and have
never seen any ill effects.from it. ]
think the oil meal is valuable largely
for the oil it contains, and that if it
was all extracted it would be little
better than bran or meal. / can see
little sense in selling fax-seed at
sl.f0 a bushel ndpaying sS0a ton
and freight for oil meal, and these
are the present quotations. Perhaps
cannot do better here than TO de-
scribe in detail how / manage calf
to raise it on skim milk and make it
as good as new milk calf / let the
calf stay with the COW a day or two,
50 as to fill itself well with its moth
er's milk, as the calf needs the pur-
gative qualities which such milk
contains. then separate it and
shutit in close, warm pen, out Of
sight, of the mother, and let it 60
without food for twenty-four hours
This may seem cruel, but it is diff
cult to make a calf drink until it is
hungry. then feed itnew milk for
about ten days or until it learns to
drink we'll and takes a start to grow.
Ithen mix half skim milk with the
new and put into the skim milk a
tablespoonful Of fax-seed. This seed
we put in a cup, pour boiling water
over it and let it stand untilit jells
By the time the calf is two weeks
old we have him on a full diet of
skim milk aud aa&-seed, and use a
little more than spoonful at a meal.
We gradually increase the flaxseed
until at eightor ten weeks old we
feed a gin at feed, or half a pint a
day. By the time the calf,is four or
six weeks old we begin feeding shell
corn, and when it gets so that will
eat four large ears ofcorn day we
slack of the daxseed. If it is sum
iner the calf should run on grass,
but if winter keep a little good hay
or corn fodder where the calf can
reach it from the time it is four
weeks old, l believe corn fodder is
best; and next to this rowen orsec-
ond crop hay. If you are wantingto
raise all the calves you can, or are
short Of milk, your calf will grow
finely after it is ten weeks old with
little milk. "A quart Of milk night
and morning, with water and a gill
of flaxseed, and a liberal feed of shell
corn and fodder i'll winter or pasture
in summer, will keep it thrifty. i
have calf now just three months old
that will eat six ears of corn and
quite a bundle Of fodder day, and /
am satisfied that it would remain
thrifty five gave it no more milk
If we had been asked one year ago
how to feed skim milk to get the
greatest profit from it / should have
answered at once, Seed to the pigs;p
but this years experience has con
WINGED me that unless hogs bring
near five cents pound, or you can
grow stock to sell at fancy prices for
breeders, there is more money in
feeding it to calves. | have noticed
for years that no stock brings pro-
portionately such high prices, or
sells as readily at farm sales, as wean-
ed'calves, and think that where
there is good stock to begin with,
and good care, there is more profit in
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