The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-04-15
Dsvslsplne Dairy calves.

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dairy calf, 10 . question Of much Inn
portance, and. In my opinion, ono
which will to great extent determine
the usefulness Of the dairy herd. writes
w. ]. Gillett in Breeders Gazette. The
trotting-bred colt is gradually educat-
cd up to its work. and 1t has been we'll
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.
Inc 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
junction, endowed by nature, must crop
out IN some form, showing her willing
ness and ability to respond, perhaps
proportionately to her education, to
her true nature. How this education
should be conducted is question upon
which we are not infallible. and can
only give method which has brought
to me very satisfactory and flattering
results. My practice is 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. / have roomy box stalls for my
calves and unless crowded for room
each one has a 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
tionately 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
nave access to good hay, clover pre-
ferred, and 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
muscle making foods, and I consider
whole milk, containing butter fat
worth 20 cents pound. an extrava-
NH Io the
, effectually with oil meal worth only
+. cent per pound. Bone and muscle and
early maturity are what seek to de-
velop in the dairy calf, and with the
foods mentioned I 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
omically 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,
cleanliness 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 frolic in the yards. In
June they are turned into small pas
ture, but are stabbed nights and inclem-
ent days, and are fed throughout the
summer. Spring calves are stabbed
during the summer, but are given open
air exercise In the winter they are
given an hours airing every day, which
/ a fnnHnocC 70 ho fha + orN
so 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 think
thrive and find sufficient nourishment
upon good pasture and should be fed
milk until about this age. I desire a
calf to always be in good thriving con-
dition, but do not encourage any dis
position to taking on flesh, for If beefy,
she is out of her place, and we are de-
veloping fictitious nature for which
she was not created. believe there is
to-day an existing evil in the Amer
lean show yard, in judges giving too
much encouragement to beefy dairy
cattle.
Hogs and Pumpkins.-J. c. Senger, in
Rural New Yorker: Recently, while
feeding my hogs their ration Of pump
kins, it required to my mind that many
of the ills with which humanity is at
fiicted, particularly some of parasite
cal nature. are due to our domestic ami
mails. More prudence and little fore
thought might avert much disease, not
to say death. Tapeworms and other
parasites find the swine, sheep, etc., a
congenial breeding place. The both
humane and wise course to pursue is
to see that our animals are kept in good
health, especially so just before
slaughtering. Pumpkin seeds are about
the only vermifuge used in some house
holds, and they are among the recog-
nized Official articles enumerated in
the United States Dispensatory,' and
are held in high repute as taeniafuges
!; by practitioners of high repute. 1t is hut
reasonable to suppose that, when fed
to our animals. they will exert a SIM
liar sanitary effect"
Demand Fat Cattle.-The strongest