The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-07-31
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 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 a few DAYS il
may be fed with milk skinned at
twelve hours, and gradually with fully
skinned milk. To the skinned milk
Cruel made of 1axseed should be added,
or that made of linseed-oil cake. This
cruel being rich in fatty or oily sub
which has been removed from the
milk. Professor E. w. Stewart, au-
thor of a 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 fiaxseed
cruel, made by boiling a pint o fiayseed
and a pint of oilmeal in ten to twelve
quarts of water, or faxseed 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 a few oats, and, in case of a
tendency to scour, give for a meal OF
two in the milk a quart of coarse wheat
flour. 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 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 t1axseed 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: eff fiaxseed is difficult to procure,
add two tablespoonfuls of oilmeal per
day, dissolved in hot water. This oil.
meal may be doubled in a week, grad
ually increasing to n 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 occu from a
larger ration as the calf grows older.
For the next ninety days, if the milk is
Fshort, 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 pei
cent. of oil and a large percentage OF
muscle-forming food and phosphate OF
| lime to build the bones and extend the
frame. 1t has most excellent qualities
as q food for raising calves, and can al.
ways be had for this purpose at from
one and a 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 q per cent; but oilmeal
may be dispensed with, and oatmeal OF
middlings used in its stead, with skim
milk" A writer in the NeU England
Farmer states that he found that finely.
ground ryemeal. fed with skim milk,
produced excellent results and obviated
the tendency of skim milk to produce
constipation. often followed by diar.
rhea.-Boston Globe.