The Columbus journal., 1898-04-20

cate IN average capacity for . Leg
horn pullet of 800 eggs per year. with
intelligent care and feeding.
-. No advantage was discovered IN
crossing the Brahma and Leghorn.
Dsvelopang Dairy Calves.
How shall We train and mature the
dairy cali, II . question Of much i'm
portance, and. In my opinion. one
which viii to . great extent determine
the usefulness Of the dairy herd, writes
w. J. Gillett in Breeders Gazette. The
trotting-bred colt il gradually educat-
ed up to its work, and it has been well
established that better results can be
reached by beginning that education at
. very early age. The youngster takes
to its lessons from a natural instinct
which Is born and bred characteristic.
The development Of the dairy calf pre-
sents . similar lesson, and she must be
trained. not to conflict with natures
laws, but to that end for which she
was born and bred. She Is like the colt.
in that by unfavorable training she
may never reach her best, yet that
function. endowed by nature. must crop
out in some form. showing her willing
ness and ability to respond, perhaps
proporti0nately to her education. to
her true nature. How this education
should be conducted IL a question upon
which we are not infallible. and I can
only give a method which has brought
to me very satisfactory and flatterins
results. Ny practice IL to allow the
calf to remain with the dam only about
six hours. This for the reason that the
early removal excites less anxiety OF
the mother. and think the calf takes
more readily to drinking milk from the
pail. I have roomy box stalls for my
calves and unless crowded for room
each one has . separate stall. Here
the education begins. I feed literally
Of whole milk for the first six weeks.
after which the youngster is gradually
weaned onto sweet skinned milk,
warm as 1t leaves the separator. At
this time I think It necessary to add
some substitute for the butter fat found
in the skinned milk, and for this pur-
pose use old process oil meal, scalded
to jelly. and mixed with milk. There
is soon developed an appetite for grain.
and while they will consume at first a
very small quantity, It must be re-
membered that this small amount does
the calf just as much good as proper
large amount does a matured
animal. aim to feed all they will eat
Of ground oats and wheat bran, mixed
equal parts by measure. They also
have access to good hay, clover pre-
ferred, and a small amount Of corn sill
age as soon as they will eat it. pre-
fer skinned milk, oil meal and this
grain ration, because they are bone and
making foods. and I consider
whole milk. containing butter fat
worth 20 cents a pound. an extrava-
CANT food. when we can do the work
effectually with oil meal worth only l
cent per pound. Bone and muscle and
early maturity are what I seek to de-
velop in the dairy calf, and with the
foods mentioned push them, realiz-
ing that there Is no time In an animals
life when the food cost of 100 pounds,
live weight, can be produced SO econ
as when they are young.
But growth is not all to be consid-
cred. and another point Of no less i'm
portance is health and constitutional
vigor. which is promoted by good sani-
tary treatment, free from exposure.
of pens, plenty Of fresh air,
sunlight, exercise, occasional grooming
and kind treatment. My fall calves are
kept in their pens until the warm. sun
ny days of early spring, when they are
daily given a frolic in the yards. In
June they are turned into a small pas
ture, but are stabbed nights and inclem-
ent days. and are fed throughout the
summer. Spring calves are stabbed
turing the summer. but are given open
air exercise. In the winter they are
given an hours airing every day. which
fondness to be with the herd,
20 when turned out in the spring, they
have learned to rustic among the older
ones, take readily to eating grass, and
soon grow Independent of stable feed.
Those twelve months of age 1 think
hrive and find sufficient nourishment
lpon good pasture and should be fed
milk until about this age. I desire a
,alf to always be in good thriving con-
1ition, but do not encourage any dis
position to taking on flesh, for II beefy.
,he is out of her place. and we are de-
veloping a fictitious nature for which
The was not created. believe there is
.o-day an existing evil in the Amer
can show yard. in judges giving too
much encouragement to beefy dairy
.attle.
DairyinE in March.
Dorothy Tucker, in Farm Journal.
'ays: No month is more trying to all
Kinds of stock than March. Remem-
,er cattle are chilled by March winds
ust as you are. When the sun shines
brightly the cows will enjoy a sun
bath in a sheltered barnyard.
More young calves die at this season
han early in winter. May it not be due
% sudden and extreme changes of tenn
perature?
Make blankets of old cin sacks.
md sew them on the yang calves.
They will save more calves than pare
soric.
Regularity in feeding and watering is
all essential.
We usually water COWS at 1880 a.
n. to IL m. One day when there was
/ delay of two hours there was a
;hrinkage of fifteen quarts Ct milk
rom thirty cows.