The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-02-01

from DR.. Tets (of Englaud) it would
} appear that the bone dust supplies
phosphates which would therefore an
pear to be deficient i'm the animal
These phosphates being very neces
sary for supporting the young life, il
may be that from this some idea may
be inferred of the cause of this abor.
ton.
A delegate said that i'm 1871 he lost g
fOals. The mares had been fed the wear
round and worked, but were not in a
pasture. During the year they had
been running in barn yard where was
an old flax bin from which a great
quantity of flax had run out and OF
which some of the horses ate too much.
Mr.. Gurler had only two cases of
blackleg in fourteen years and that in
both cases it took the latest animals
A delegate said that on blackleg ap-
pearing in his herd they applied sever
nj seatOns numerically to each animal
and found this to be most effective
remedy.
Mr.. Gurler said that his objection to
feeding oats to calves is that he had to
pay more for the same amount of nu-
triment in oats than in any other kind
of feed. Vice President Beach said
that he thought the value of SKINNED
milk as food was not SO valuable by
itself, but was of more value when used
in connection with corn meal or shorts.
| had considerable experience i'm using
cooked food both for cows and hogs,
and l am satisfied, but whether il
will actually pay the extra cost of fuel
and labor ] cannot say. But what ]
want to emphasize is that milk is not a
perfect food without grain being used
with it.
In reply to a delegate Mr.. BarthOle-
NEW said that his experience in feed
ing oil meal to calves was satisfactory
provided it is fed with care. have fed
1t for many years but it must be first
used in small quantities. | have fed
both kinds and find that the new pro-
cess called benzine is the safest. be-
gin perhaps with tablespoonful in
warm water, increasing by degrees per-
haps-tO pint by the time the calf gets
3 or 4 months old. Both kinds of meal
need to be first cooked. Besides the
oil meal feed to my calves butter milk
much reduced. am now feeding cot
ton meal to calves as an experiment,
and so far, with good results. l prefer
oil meal for calves as against Oat and
corn meals, and would use about the
same quantity of either process of oil
meal. | have never fed any scalded
seed.
A delegate said that in his section
they had found a much better result
from feeding scalded seed to calves.
Mr.. Bartholomew thought that the
less oil contained in the meal the better
for the calf.
4 delegate said that he had sold
calves about months old, and raised
and fed upon skinned milk and oil
meal, at SIS, $l8 and $40 each.
Mr.. Straight said he had found that
the old process of oil meal had cOnsid-
cradle oil left in it, but in the new pro-
cess he had failed to find the least trace
of oil, and that his foreman had found
that the old process containing the oil
was very much better than the new
Mr.. DeLand, who had had considera-
bic experience in the feeding of oil
meal, said that il was very necessary
that the right kind of oil meal should
be used. He preferred the new kind Of
meal which he was feeding to young
calves. II contains some less oil than
the old process, and we don't want to
put much oil into the calf's stomach
This new process meal can be increased
for calves from a tea cup full at = weeks
to a quart at i months. The secret in
feeding this meal is in not feeding too
much.
Mr.. Kendall stated that he was feed
ing A cows on this new process of oil
meal, which contains s per cent. less
oil than the old meal, and with appar-
ent satisfactory results.
MIR. III. Smith said that this matter of
here in America was new
thing, but a small experiment made at
process meal while containing some
what less oil than the old process was
still nc nutritious and more desirable by
reason of is freeness from oil. He
hoped that these official experiments
would be taken up, and carried out to
some practical end, for there was rauch
need of such action.