The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-03
Raising Calves.


The American Dairyman says: The
practice of .'dcaconing' calves is hap
PLY, fast going out of use. The milk
Of a fresh cow is usually worth more us
ed in any other way than fed to a calf
for veal; hence, when our dairymen have
use for their milk, they used to be
tempted to knock the calves in the
head. according 10 the memorial prac-
tice of Deacon Hardshcll. Utmost dairy
districts skim milk or whey can be cas-
lily and cheaply obtained. and. with the
addition of well scalded linseed or cot
tonsed oil cake meal, calves so thrive
that in many eases il is hard to tell
skim milk calves from suckers
All calves will not thrive upon the
same treatment. Cotton seed meal will
cause some to scour and some to be-
come constipated. Linsecd meal is bet
ter. but more expensive.
A calf to be brought up by hand
should never suck at all. The idea that
It is better for the cow. has nothing in
it. 1t is not even better for her udder.
II the udder is hard or infiamed, battle
it several times a day with hot water, as
hot as the mixer can bear his hands
in, or as hot as the COW will bear with
out showing signs of pain, and use hard
kneading and rubbing at the same
time.
For a few days the calf should have
the milk of its own dam; at three days
old, half-skimmed milk, with a small
handful of oilcake meal, well scalded
and stirred into the skinned milk twice
n day. The quantity may be gradually
increased. and tepid milk is much bet
ter relished than cold.
In using cotton seed cake meal, buy
that which is bright yellow, fine, meas
urably free from black specks, and quito
free from little specks of woolly lint, and
never neglect thorough scalding or
boiling, il fed to calves.
If the calf is thrifty at ten days or two
weeks old, gradually substitute the cot
ION seed cake meal; and if it exhibits n
good appetite and great activity after
being fed cotton seed for o few days, it
may be turned In with other calves.
There may BIO fed skim milk with half
y pint of w~ell-scalded cotton seed cake
meal in ten quarts of milk. Calves six
weeks old or more may have whey sub.
stituted for skinned milk, and several
will drink from the same trough.
Under the best treatment and with
good pasture, such calves will OCCASION
ally be troubled with ours (diarrh9a.)
II this becomes chronic, it is hard to
cure, but if milk thickened with fine
-four and boiled for some time-fine and
free from Jumps, like starch paste-bo
| added to the daily ration, in the
proportion of one-fifth to one-half. &C
cording to the severity of the attack,
and fed by pouring it from a bottle
down the Calls throat, if he will not
drink it, a cure will be promptly effected
IN most cases.
We are shipping enormous quantities
| If cotton seed and linseed cake to Eng
land for feeding purposes, and it seems
very strange that our dairy farmers
know so little about their use in feeding
10 cows for milk, and to calves instead
Of milk. With their judicious use.
skim milk, buttcrmilk and whey may
be mado of very much greater value
| t.,an as ut present used for calves; and
calves MI be raised either for stock or
for veal. which will DO hardly inferior
TO tho~ ,t.irne'i or brought up upon
tho COW IS III present.