Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-07-15
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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 aries, where the
SKINNED milk may be Fused for them. In
butter dailies 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 large
advance upon their actual cost. The
skill and care expended in rearing
calves TO good COWS must be paid for,
rs all skilled labor is, az high price.
But the dairyman cal easily rear a
Young animal TO a productive con-
Iiton at two years Of age, in the b EST
manner for no more than $25 or $50.
SKINNED milk is a sufficient food
for calves. During the 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 he warme in the
stomach. and the abstract on of so
much heat from this organ necessarily
weakens digestive action as well as
wastes the food.
The milk should he warmed TO ninety
degrees for the fist two months. The
food SHOULD be Civ EN- no more copiously
than it can be digested. Three quarts
at a meal Is ample for the first feeding,
and two meals day are sufficient.
Fat is not required to any large extent
10y calf that is to be reared for the
dairy, and whatever fat is needed TO
fll out healthful tissue will be easily
furnished by one or two per cent of il
left in the skinned milk, or by the nj
tr0genous matter of tie milk. Six
quarts day is equal to thirteen
pounds, which will furnish sufficient
nourishment for growth of one and
a quarter pounds of live weight daily.
IL will not do to suppose that if ten
pounds of milk produce one pound of
live weight twenty pounds will pro-
duce twice as much. We cannot figure
il that way in feeding animals of any
kind. Overlooking produces indiges-
ton, loads up the system with inluri-
Gus matter, retards growth or stops it
altogether, Oh even reduces the weight
previously gained. Indigestion Eatu-
rally results in diarrhea, a frequent
and troublesome disease in young
calves. and often fatal one. But il
is easily avoided by escaping the cause
of it, which is generally overlooking
The feed ng must be regular, and
when this word is used, it is meant in
its most exact and fullest sense, as re-
CARDS quantity, quality. condition of
fool, and time of feeding. Regularity.
in fact is the most indispensable ele
ment of success in the dairy, and it
should be as complete and perfect in
every way as the motions of nature
Il is one of the first of natural laws.
and the greatestadvantage we can gain
over nature in the doMestication OF
eur animals is in avoiding those irrs 9
ularitles which in a wild condition are
Causel by accidents of weather and
season It's practice in the dairy in
sures health and thrift in the animals.
esp cially in the young growing ones.
Cleanliness is also indispensable, for
the food must be clean and sweet TO
avoid disturbance of the digestion and
nutrition. Fortunately, In the modern
improved dairy appliances we have
perfect means of securing purity and
sweetness in the skinned milk, and
THIS Is rs necesS airy for the rearing of
Young caves as for the manufacture
Of choice butter.
Warm and comfortable lodgings,
90, are closely a lied TO f eding; In
deed they are indirectly part of the
feeding, for if TO maintain the animal
hest under exposure to cold. which
wastes 1t, we are compe led TO increase
The food, we overtaX the weak digest
I'VE powers of the young alf, and at
once produce disorder and disease. Ex-
posture to cold will, of itself, produce
ularrhea, which is, perhaps, the only
Alment In calves that we need to
guard against.
After calf is one month Old the
teed may be gradually increased week
~ week up to four quarts at meal.
ana at two months old a little mixed
ground oats and corn MAY be given in
TIE hand until the calf will take an
ounce or so daily from feed-box. 1t
WI then begin to pick some fine hav
clover I If it is 4 winter calfl or oat
s'aSS n the spring or summer. For
she after It is best to furnish hand
lul OF cut rrasS or clover raflnr t,nr,