The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-08-02
How TO Feed the Calves.

The calf should be fed freely with its
mothers milk for the first week or ten
days of its life to afford it fair start
in the world. The calf may, however,
be taken from its mother the third dav
and taught to drink, feeding warm new
milk to it at first. In few days it
may 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 valuable work on Feeding
Animals" says that the skim milk ra-
ton ''may be made about as nutritious
as The new milk by adding to it flaxseed
cruel, made by boiling pint oftlaXseed
and pint of Oilmeal in ten to twelve
quarts of water, or i1aXseed alone in six
times its bulk of water; mix this one to
two parts with skim milk and feed
blood warm. Let the calf have its fill
twice per day, at regular times, until
six months old. During this time teach
it to eat few oats, and, in case of y
tendency to scour, give for meal or
two in the milk a quart of coarse wheat
flour. twill be perceived that the oil
of the tlaxseed will make good the loss
of the cream in the milk; in fact, it is a
ration as rich as milk itself, and we
have seen calves raised upon it quite
the equal of calves running with the
dam. We have also used flaxseed and
peameal to make cruel to mix with the
skim milk, and it has proved an excel
lent combination" In giving direc-
tions for feeding a calf one week old
upon skim milk, Professor Stewart
says: ''If fiaxseed is difficult to procure,
add two tablespoSnfuls of oilmeal per
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 TO sixty
days old. When the calf is sixty days
old add one pound of oats or oatmeal
or wheat middlings. Continue this for
sixty days. Twenty pounds skim milk
per day will be sufficient for first ninety
days, 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 middlings
to ten pounds per day. We have ad-
visedlinseed oilmeal, because it is ex-
cellent for the health OF the calf, and,
as we know by analysis, has ten per
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
as 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 the former figure in the
West and 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 p per cent; but oilmeal
may be dispensed with, and oatmeal or
middlings used in its stead, with skim
milk" A writer in the Ne,0 England
Farmer states that he found thatinely-
ground ryemea, fed with skim milk,
produced excellent results and obviated
the tendency of skim milk to produce
constipation, often followed by diar
rhea-- Boston Globe.