The Grenada gazette., 1888-06-23
row TO RAISE CALVES.


NOW TO RAISE CALVES.
Ihsss 1Aiaes TAai Mast - CsrseaIly ~
Csassassusssiy OBSERVED
Altar thirty years experience In
rearing calves during which time |
hare tried both raising BY hand and
sllowing them to run with the ssvs. !
an decidedly in favor Il the fcrnsr
plan Ylrss because II Is cheaper.
and. also because . calf raised BY
hand seldom gives trouble By sucking.
To raise good. thrifty calf oy hand
requires cara bat 50 does any thing
that IL done we'll | prefer to let the
calf remain with is mother thres
dsyA as il ID best for both mother and
ealt ss the milk It first contains pur.
estivs qualities needed for the cali
and Il also viii develop healthy sp'
petite. which will make II easier to
teach it to drink When taken
from the mother. shut the cah
in , stall or pen about three
BY six feet; this win give
it plenty Of room until it is several
weeks old As rule, there win be
little trouble to teach a calf To drink,
but ron will need to exercise patience
for day or two. Give the calf new
milk-fron three TO four q uarts At .
feed-for . week or ten days, or un-
i'll ron see it Is fairly started to grow.
Then substitute SKINNED milk
warmed to the temperature Of new
milk. and with small amount OF oat-
meal to replace the cream. Begin
with tablespoonful to gallon Of
milk Prepare it BY pouring boiling
water over i. and let it thicken to .
j.lly before mixing it with the milk
A pound Of the meal will thicken two
and half gallons Of water. The
amount Of meal may be incre ased
gradually to gill or possibly more.
By the time the calf is three weeks
old you should begin to teach 1t to
eat. Place small handful Of good,
brigh hay-clover preferred--where he
can reach it. Throw a handful OF
shelled corn in his trough. and dust a
small quantity of wheat bran into it
daily. ! think many calves are un.
thrifty simply becanse they are not
furnished coarse food soon enough
BIZ the time your calf is three months
old. You should have it eating hay or
grass and bran as regularly as COW,
and Then you can begin TO diminish
its allowance Of milk. and in two
weeks you may reduce the milk to
quart at feed. just enough to color
the mess, which will then consist OF a
pint OF bran and gill Of meal made
into a gallon Of cruel and colored with
the milk. Keep this up until your cali
is five or six months old. or until it
eats dry bran readily. anil make no
sudden changes Of diet Shelled corn.
a, the rate of a pint day. is good for
1t while on full-milk feed. but bran
ard oats should take the place Of corn
as the milk is deere eased.
Three things must be carefully OBJ
served. il yon expect your calf to re-
main thrifty, and avoid indigestion
aud scours. and these are, temperature
Of food. regular quantity and regular
hours Of feeding. With careful atten.
,ion to these points you may get all
the butter from your COW and grow
smooth. thrifty calf. which viii be
worth Just as much at a year old as
though it had sucked
Hyou wish to produce lons-haired.
pot-bellied animals, nave no regular
hour for feeding but do it any where
from FIVE to nine o clock; give some.
times three quarts and sgain six or
eight, and feed it some times hot and
sometimes cold. keep them in filthy
pen and furnish then nothing but
milk, and II they do not die of scours
which they probably will-you will
have some fine samples Of scalawags,
such as are quoted at $l.75 to q. 50
per 100 pounds. / would rather raise
a fall calf than one born in the spring.
II can be kept in q warm stable through |
the winter and fed so that it will be |
thrifty, and then it goes to pasture for |
. long season OF growth. and by the
next winter is almost COW. while the
summer calf has long winter before
1t after it has been fed through |
the summer A COW that comes in
fresh in October will give more milk
and make more butter in year than
one that comes in fresh in the spring.
and there will be more months Of high.
priced butter. also. The dairymas
who tries fall calves will soon be con.
smced that there is more profit from
The milk and better developed calves
than from the usual custom Of breed.
Ing for spring. - Waldo f. BSoun. in
Farm and Fireside.