Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-02-05
FEEDING CALVES.
TUXEDO. Whatcom Co., w. T.


MR. L. MEEKnR,
Ag. Editor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES:
DEAR SIR--I have been reading your
home talk. Mouid like 10 ask u few
questions abnus raising calves. When
the calye ge about four weeks old
they take the d,arrhna and pass blood.
have lost several in that way. feed
the COWS hay. roots and chop feed. II
you have any remedy. please let me
hear through your paper.
4. II. wucHER.
This letter does not state the full
case, whether he is feeding the calves
or lets them suckie the dam. II fed,
the csuse may be from feeding the
milk 90 cold. or irregularly: or 1t may
be from exposure OF the calf TO the in
clemency OF the weather. An ounce
OF prevention is worth more than a
pound OF cure" hence it Is important
TO look sharply into every nook and
cDi.a. -. 49, eAuse. There are three
requisites 10 be complied with to in
sure success in raising calves:
LIST. The food. whether milk or cruel.
or both. should be warm rs freshly
drawn milk.
ID. The calf should be fed at regular
hours and not overfed; and
ID. should be housed Gin winter) in
comfortable, clean, warm quarters,
and allowed room for exercise AS well
We raise all our calves ~ hand. not
letting them suckle more than twice,
and sometimes ily once II the calf
inclines TO scour, reduce the feed y
little. One ought always have oilmeal
Though faxseed is be teri to make
cruel for calves where skim milk is fed.
We have fed IL to great advantage and
know il is a perfect antiaote against
the complaint described BY our CORES
pendent. Its more than that, though;
iVr it almost, IL not quite, restores to
the milk the food value OF the cream
taken.
ste art say " fiaxseed as small
part OF the ration for the calf cannot
be too highly recommended. IL is 8
natural an,idote 10 securing or fever.
.sh condition OF the stomach and in
testines Its large proportion of Of
renders it so appropriate to mingls
with other food deficient in oil that il
will well repay any feeder to keep 4
iex bushels on hand" Again: VIZ
have often had calves seventy DAYS old
fsd " IN one half pound of fiaxsect
aud one and half pounds of oatmea
each, with tsenty pounds of skim mill
per day, that have gained in weigh
thirty 20 tairty-sey u pounds in tel
days. Tho haHseei and oatmeal ar,
boiled and thea mixed with the milk.
Brewing says: " Whole oats is tn
best feed for calves ever fed TO mas,
them grow aud keep their bowel IL
order" The tact Is, oats are as near
complete ration Ss i plssih.e to get {,
one grain. and BE i right; they vii
's make them grow and no mistake.
We would advise our correspondent
20 try the boiled aaxseei. il obtains
HE. II not. then oilmeAl. or il no
either, then oats.
We maze the cruel by pouring boil
Ing water over the fisxseesi or clinical
stirring meSn~hils. adding water unit
the whoe j. she consistency Ct cooke
starch. and while warm, Fnlx With III
m,lk aad feed a, once. We have los
no calves fed ia this way and. hy tarn
.ng to the record in " !anilsar talks
it Is there sAosh where we, too. hai
calves that gained IN weight thirty 9
thirty-sryea pounds IN ten days" o
nearly 80 Ted Ca skim mix and Ear
seed gr1e.-