The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-31
How to Fed the Calves.

The calf should be fed freely witIijts
mothers milk for the first week or zen
days of its life to afford it a fair start
in the world. The calf may, however,
be taken from its mother the third day
and taught to drink, feeding warm new
| milk to it at first. In few days il
! NAV be fed with milk skinned at
twelve hours, and gradually with fully
! skinned milk. To the skinned milk
Cruel made of flaxseed should be added.
or that made of linseed-oil cake. This
cruel being rich in fatty or oily sub
stances supplies the place of the cream
which has been removed from the
milk. Professor f. w. Stewart, au-
thor of 4 valuable work on Feeding
Animals" says that the skim milk ra-
ton s'may be made about as nutritious
as the new milk by adding to it flaxseed
Cruel, made by boiling a pint OffaVseed
and pint of Oilmeal in ten to twelve
quarts of water, or Gaxseed alone in six
times its bulk of water; mix this one to
two parts with skim milk Gnd feed
blood warm. Let the calf have its I'LL
twice per day, at regular times, until
six months old. During this time teach
il to eat few oats, and, in case of =
tendency to scou., give for a meal or
two in the milk quart of coarse wheat
-four 1t will be perceived that the oil
of the faxseed will make good the loss
OF the cream in the milk; in fact, it is a
ration rs rich rs milk itself, and we
have seen calves raised upon 1t quite
the equal of calves running with the
dam. We have also used iiaXSeed ana
peameal to make cruel to mix with the
Skim milk, and it has proved an excel
lent combination " In giving d;rec-
tions for feeding calf one week Old
upon skim milk. Professor Stewart
saws: IF flaxseed is difficult to procure.
add two tablespOonfuls of oilmeal pen
day. dissolved in hot water. This oil
meal may be doubled in week, grad.
ually increasing to one pound per day;
but this will be sufficient up 10 sixty
davs old. When the calf is siXE days
old add one pound of oats or oatmeal
or wheat middlings. Continue this for
sixtv davs. Twenty pounds skim milk
per day will be sufficient for first ninety
davs, but no injury will occur from a
larger ration as the calf grows older.
For the next ninety days, if the milk IS
short, feed only ten pounds of skim
milk, and increase the oats or middllngs
tn ten pounds per day. We have adj
vised linseed Oilmeal, because it is ex'
ceilent for the health of the calf, and.
as we know by analysis, has ten pen
cent of oil and large percentage OF
muscle-forming food and phosphate OF
lime to build the bones and extend the
frame. 1t has most excellent qualities
a, a food for raising calves, and can al
ways be had for this purpose at from
one and half to two cents per pound,
generally at tho former figure IN the
West ard the latter in the East. New
process linseed meal is now gradually
taking The place Of the old style oil:
meal, the difference being that the Oil
is reduced to q per cent; but oilmeai
may be dispensed with, and oatmeal OF
middl:ngs used in its stead, with SKIM
milk" A writer in the NeU England
F'uner states that he found that finely
ground ryeWeal. fed with skim milk.
produced excellent results and obyiated
the tendency of skim milk to produce
constipation, often followed by diar>
rhea. Boston Globe.