Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-12
THE DAIRY,
Feeding Calves shin-,,ills.

A very successful feeder, in. Canada
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calves on skim-milk:
The calves are fed by hand all the new
milk they will take three times day,
until about week old. Then skim-milll
is added; only a little at first, but the
quantity of skim-milk is so increased and
that of the new milk so reduced, that in
two weeks from the commencement of
this change, skinl-milk only will be fed.
The sllim-lnilll is fed only when it is
sweet, as when sour it produces scours
and Injuries digestion in other ways. The
skim-mill is fed at the temperature OF
milk just from the COW. In heating, q
portion of the milk is put on the stove in
q pan or pail, and heated gradually till
quite warm. 1t is then poured into the
portions respectively set apart for each
calf. The calves get the milk three
times a day for, say month from the
beginning Of the change to skim-milk,
but less quantity is given at noon, and
skim-milk they will take without injury
to them.
When the change is being made from
new milk to skim-milk, fax seed is added
to the milk 1t is prepared us follows:
flax at night, and pour on two quarts of
boiling water, allowing it to steep till
morning: it is then warmed and added to
the milk; the quantity of flax may be grad
! ually but slowly increased until three
fourths of teacupful of fax seed,
stepped in proportionate increase of
hot water, is given to each animal. The
| flax for the night meal is put to steep in
! the same way in the morning. Milk Is
! fed until Hle calves are seven or eight
months old. They should have access to
all the clean water they will drink at all
! times.
| They get all tho meal they will cat up
clean twice q day. The mixture consists
of one-fourth ground peas, one-fourth
ground oats, and one-half wheat bran;
this is mixed with good hay run through
| a cutting box. The proportion OF the
haN to the meal is increased as the calves
ret older. Where meal of this kind is
not to be had, give your calves oats,
which you may feed whole, and you need
not mix them with cut hay. Dat shcaves
are sometimes cut in the chatter and the
meal mixture added, but not so much OF
il in quantity as when the cut oat
sheaves are not fed.
Butter FlnvOrS.
The way to secure good favored butter
is to feed the cows with good favored
food. The delicious aroma and palata-
ble tlayors of the butter come from the
oils of the food. These oils are un-
changed by digestion. Hence the butter
is characterized by the food consumed
hv the cow. The whilom popularity OF
June and September butter had some
fling substantial behind it, It was
made from the sweet grasses OF June
and the fresh aftermath of tho second
growth, and under the favoring tempera-
ture peculiar to the early and late sum,
mer alike. Edward Burnett, the noted
dairyman of Deerfoot Farm, tells OF de-
Gliding sharp competition for the honors
nj n fair. where he afterward learned
tho Young dairyman who won the prize
nicked bright clover heads each DAY 1 1or
his not Jersey that was giving MN M, me ne
milk. These delicious tlavoring OILS 40
not come from bog hay, where tney
never new exist, nor from improper fooa as
whose tiavors are not OF stanoaro q
order. Dairyman seeking product e,,,. OF OF
HIGH quality will do well to think ,o o.
these things when providing fooders iol
sn IN milk.-Mat,,e Farmer.