Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-03
HOW TO RAISE CALVES.
Three Things That Must 10 Carefully and
ConscientiousIy Observed.


ConscicntIously Observed.
After thirty years experience in
roaring calves, during which timo l
have tried both raising by hand and
allowing them to run with tho COWS. |
am decidedly in favor Of the former
plan. First because it is cheaper,
and, also, because calf raised by
hand seldom gives trouble by sucklng.a
To raise good, thrifty calf by hand
requires care, but so does any thing
that is done we'll. | prefer to lot the
calf remain with its mother three
days, as IL Is best for both mother and
calf, as tho milk ut first contains pur-
gative qualities needed for the call.
aud it also will develop healthy ap-
petite. which will mako 1t easier 10
teach 1t TO drink. When taken
from tile mother. shut the calf
In a stall or pen about three
by six fcct;. this will give
it.plenty of room until 1t is several
weeks old As rule, there will be
iittlo trouble to teach calf to drink,
but you will need TO exercise patience
for day or two. Givo tho calf new
milk-fron throo TO four q uaris at n
fcod-for q week or ten days, or un-
iii you see it Is fairly started to grow.
Then substitute skinned milk.
warmed TO iho temperature of now
milk, and with small amount of oat-
meal to replace tho cream Begin
with n tablespoonful TO gallon of
milk Prepare 1t by pouring boiling
water over it. and let it thicken to u
jilly before mixing it with tho milk.
A pound of the moal will thickcn two
and half gallons of water. The
amount of meal may be increased
gradually 10 a gill, or possibly more.
BY the timo the calf is three weeks
old. you SHOULD begin 10 teach ~ TO
eat. Place small handful OF good,
bright hay-clover proftrred--wherc hc
can reach it. Throw q handful of
shcllcd corn in his trough, and dust
small quantity of wheat bran into it
daily. | think many calves are un-
thrifty simply because they are not
furnished coarse food soon enough.
BY ille timo your calf is three months
old. you should have it eating hay or
grass and bran as regularly as u cow,
and then you can begin TO diminish
its allowance of milk, and In two
weeks you may reduce tho milk TO q
quart at feed. Just enough to color.
al. ,,,ht IL taN s.f
pint Of bran and a gill of meal made
into n gallon Of Cruel and colored with
tho milk. Keep this up until your calf
is five or six months old. or until it
eats dry bran readily. and make no
sudden changes of diet Shollod corn,
at tho rate of a pint day. is good for
it while on fnll-milk feed. but bran
and oats should take tho place of corn
as the milk is decreased
Three things must be carefully OBJ
served. II you expect your calf to re-
main thrifty, and avoid indigestion
and scours. and these are, temperature
of food. regular quantity and regular
hours of feeding. With careful atten-
tion to these points you may get all
the butter from your COW and grow
smooth. thrifty cali, which will be
worth just ms much at a ycar old as
though II had sucked.
If you wish to produce long-hnirod.
animals, have no regular
hour for feeding. but do 1t any where
from five TO nine o clock; give somc-
times three quarts anil again six or
eight and feed IL sometimes hot and.
sometimes cold. keep them in filthy
pen and furnish then nothing but
milk. and II thcy do not die of scours
which they probably will-you will
have some fine samples of scalawags.
such as are quoted at 81 75 to e, so
per 100 pounds, l would rather raise
n fall calf than one born in the spring.
II can bekeptin warm stable through
tho winter and fed so that it will be
thrifty. and then It goes to pasture for
n long season of growth. and by tho
next winter is almost q COW, while The
summer calf has a long winter bcfbrc
It after 1t has been fed through
he summer A COW that comes in
fresh in October win give moro milk
and make more butter in year than
ono that comes in fresh in tho spring,
and there will be more months of high
priced butter. also. Tho dairyman
who tries fall calves will soon be con-
gInced that there is moro profit from
he milk and better developed calves
han from tho usual custom of breed
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