The Opelousas courier., 1883-08-25

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essfr Rearing of Calves.
Calves are the seed of the dairy.
No one can have good stock, or i'm
prove what he may have, unless he
gives his best care and attention to
rearing his calves. A calf is made or
spoiled in the rearing, and it matters
less what the parentage is than what
the rearing and training may be.
There is no difficulty whatever in rear
ing calves in da ries, where the
skinned milk may be usedfor them. In
butter diaries it is an absolute neces-
sity to rear the calves, because good
cows cannot be purchased at any rea-
sonable price or for less than a large
advance upon their actual cost. The
skill and care expended in rearing
calves to good cows must be paid for,
as all skill ed,1abor is, at a high price.
But the dairyman caa easily rear a
young animal to a productive con-
dition at two years of age, in the best
manner, for no more than $25 or $3O.
SKINNED milk is a sufficient food
for calves. During tie first four or
FIVE days they may have the milk fresh
from the dam, but after that skinned
milk may be, substituted gradually,
until in a week none but skinned
milk is used. It is necessary, how
ever, that the milk be fed warm, and
this is a specially Indispensable point.
Cold milk must be warme1 in the
stomach, and the abstraction of SO
much heat from this organ necessarily
weakens digestive action as well as
wastes the food.
The milk should be warmed to ninety
degrees for the first two months. The
food shoull be given no more copiously
than it can be digested. Three quarts
at a MEALS ample for thefrst feeding,
and two meals a day are sufficient.
Fat is not required to any large extent
by a calf that Is to be reared for the
dairy, and whatever fat is needed to
I'LL out healthful tissue will be easily
furnished by one or two per cent. OF II
left in the SKINNED milk, or by the nj
trogenous matter of tie milk. Six
quarts a day is equal to thirteen
pounds, which will furnish sufficient
nourishment for a growth of and
a quarter pounds of live weight daily.
It will not do to suppose that il ten
pounds of milk produce one pound OF
live weight twenty pounds will pro.
duce twice ais much. We cannot figure
it that way in feeding animals of any
kind. Overlooking produces indiges-
ton, loads up the system with in uri-
Jus matter, retards growth or stops IT
altogether, OF even reduces the weight
previously gained. Indigestion natu.
rally results in diarrhea, a frequent
and troublesome disease in young
calves, and often a fatal me-. But ii
is easily avoided by escaping the Gauss
oft, which is generally overfeeding.
The feeding must be regular, and
when this word is used, it is meant IN
it's most exact and fullest sense, as re
CARDS quantity, quality, condition Of
food, and time of feeding. Regularity
in fact, is the most Indispensable ele
ment of success in the dairy, and il
should be as complete and perfect II
every way as the motions of nature
It is one Of the first of natural laws
and the greatest advantage we can gaiI
over nature in the domestication o
our animals is in avoiding those irreg
uiarities which in a wild condition ar
caused BY accidents of weather ant
season. its practice in the dairy i'm
sures health and thrift in the animals
especially in the young growing ones
Cleanliness is also indispensable. TO
the food must be clean and sweet t
avoid disturbance of the digestion an
nutrition. Fortunately. In the moderl
improved dairy appliances we hav
perfect means Of securing purity an
sweetness in the skinned milk, an
this ii as necessary for the rearing Q
young calves as for the manufactur
OF choice butter.
Warm and comfortable lodgings
too, are closely allied to fseding; il
deed. they are indirectly a part Of til
feeding, for if to maintain the anims
best under exposure to cold. whic
wastes it, we are compelled to increas
the food, we overtax the weak diges
i've POWERS Of the young calf, and
once produce disorder and disease. E,
posure To cold win, Of itself, produt
diarrhea, which is, perhaps, the on
ailnent lin calves that we need
guard against.
After a calf is one month Old Il
feed ma be gradually increased wee
by week up to four quarts at q mea
and at two months old q little mike
uround oats and corn may be given
The hand until the calf will take q
ounce or SO daily from q feed-boy.
viii then begin to pick some fine ha
81 clover (if it is d winter calf OF q;
grass In the spring b summer. ~
the latter it Is best to furnish q l-ant
full of cut grass Of clover, rather cha
to turn the calf into the field until
is four months Old. In the gradual
crease Of food the first sign Of eXcess
the appearance Of diarrIea, which
easily stopped by the immediate redu
ton of the food aud the subsi
tuition of a quart OF new mi
fresh from the COW Civ,
twice d day. In treating diarrhl
astringent drugs only make matte
worse. al warm, demulcent drink
the best medicine, and well boiled oil
meal Cruel, with an equal part
sweetened gum water lgunl araf
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