The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-06-20
FEEDING YOUNG CALVES.
Tho Plan Successfully Adopted by Wei
known Agricultural Writer.


known Agricultural Writer.
Ihaye seen several articles in the
agricultural papers lately on veal
farming" and possibly the best thing
to do with the calves is to make veal
of them until cattle bring better price
thap they now do. | have not how
ever found it such a pleasant Job to
make a COW own strange calf that
.shanker' after job of this kind every
few days, and do not find it necessary,
for can make good veal calves on
SKINNED milk and at the same time
make a good profit from the butter. /
know that great many farmers think
a skim-milk calf is by necessity bony,
pot-bellied, long-haired animal. and |
confess that have seen many of@thisz
description. Nevertheless it is not
the fault of the calf, but OF the feeder,
and / can grow good profitable calf
on skinned milk that will sell to the
butchers or the hucksters for as much
m oney as if it had sucked the cow, but
l sh all feed it a week or two longer,
and this can we'll a ford to do for /
can usually make dollars worth or
more OF butter week from fresh
COW. The huckster who buys. the
calves in my neighborhood says he
prefers handled calves as they do not
shrink so much, and he can give them
a drink of milk just before he reaches
market and they will look better and
sell better than a calf that is bawfing
for its mother. Whether calf is to
be raised or -veafed, let it remain with
its mother three days, as the mothers
milk has purgative qualities and it is
necessary that the calf should have it
to develop good healthy appetite.
/ have. never had. any trouble to
teach a calf how to drin k since adopt
ed this rule: Give the calf new milk
for the first week, and then begin with
SKINNED milk. Use heaping table,
spoonful of old process oil meal made
into kind OF jelly by pouring scalding
water. over it and stir it into the milk.
Make It as near the temperature 81
milk just drawn from the COW as you
can. Begin with a gall on at feeding,
twice day. IIhave found calves to do
better fed twice a day tn an three times,
and / prefer TO keep them in a small
box stall which should be kept clean.
Feed at regular hours, and In cold
weather especially be SUI re to have the
temperature right. CIR aduallH increase
the oil meal up to a gill and as your
calf grows the milk may be increased.
but if at any time the calf leaves any
in the trough clean it out at once, and
do not let it stand by the calf all day.
Before your calf is three weeks old you
should have it eating something be-
sides milk. Put a little sweet hay,
clover or rowen where it can reach it;
dust little bran or ground oats into
its trough, or If you have carrots, slice
one for it. My calves this winter
learned to eat carrots before they were
a mouth old. SHIELDED scofnis excellent
for young Calves and they will learn to
eat it quite young. You should keep
some bright, sweet hay where the calf
can reach it'and it will begin to nibble
IL
though your calf will cat but little
hay, it is of impo rtanee that it should
have some, for 1t, keeps the stomach
and bowels regular. ---s.---,s--,--4-
/ have never known calf to have
scours that was fed regularly and had
little hay daily. If through your care
lessness in feeding too much or too
cold milk. your calf begins to scour.
stop the SKINNED milk at once and
feed for two feeds half the quantity OF
new milk. You can detect the scours
as soon as you enter the stable by the
odor and should act pro mptly to cure.
it. The stall in which your calf stands
should be cleaned and fir esh bedding
put in it and it shoul d be disinfected
with plaster or dry earth, and If your
experience is like mine, your calf will
be well=ins less than fortyseight hours.
The fact is, however, chat not one calf
in ten will ever have scours IL fed as
direct. The one safe and simple rule
in feeding is to make all changes in
food gradual When you begin to feed
bran only dust tablespoonful into the
tr ough; give first small handful of
corn, or three or four slices of carrots.
/ have known many calves killed out
right by q single over feeding. -Four
calves in my neighbours howell were
killed in one season by over feeding
with cottonseed meal, and ] have sew
eral times known a calf to die In an
hour from drinking pailfll OF cold
milk at once. There is no need OF.
s'deaconingu the bull calves in butter
dairy, for in six weeks they can be
made good veal without new milk.
Waldo +. Brown. in Ohio Farmer.