Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-03-17
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm-A Few
Hints to the Care OF Live Stock
and Poultry.


]. NJ. Trueman. in an address to
Pennsylvania farmers, said:
II skim milk cannot be obtained, It
is possible to raise excellent calves on
hay tea. Take large pot and fill It
with early cut clover or timothy hay,
cover it with water and boil for half
an hour. The tea thus made is very
nutritious and is much relished by the
calves. l have made a common prac-
tice of warming little skim milk by
pouring into it hot hay tea. and found
1t very satisfactory drink for calves.
The clear tea may be improved by add
ing to it some of the linseed jelly and
also small amount Of scalded mid
dlings. Two gallons of hay tea with
scalded linseed and middlings and bran
and ground oats. and clover hay for
dry feed would be good days ration
for calf two months old.
Calves dropped in the spring should
not be turned out to pasture the first
summer. as more uniform growth will
be obtained by feeding them in the
barn away from the heat and flies. II
is generally more convenient to have
calves that are to be raised dropped
In the fall. as they can be given more
attention during the winter, and are
In good condition to make use Of pas
ture the next summer. Even at SIX
months old, however, they should not
be left unprotected in the heat, but
should have darkened barn or shed
to which they can go to get away
from the flies Don't leave them out
late in the fall, but take them to the
barn before the cold begins to pinch
them.
The second winter the yearlings
should be supplied with food that Will
form bone and muscle. They Will De
able to eat considerable roughage, as
straw and corn fodder, but will also
need some concentrated food. 1t is not
desirable to harden their muscles too
much, as 1t is apt to hinder growth
Give them roots or silage once day
to keep the muscles soft and growing.
II you have neither of these foods,
plan to have one of them next year,
and In the meantime feed wheat bran
dQQ lluSeeQ III Suldil QudAlitiCos VI ehJ
food, as dried brewers
grains or gluten feed. If the heifers
show signs of getting fat, reduce the
linseed meal. Give them one feed a
day of good clover hay.
The heifers should be bred to drop
their first calves at about two years
old While pregnant feed rather more
with view to developing a
good udder When within a few months
Of calving increase the grain feed In
order that the udder may be developed. |
and that the drain of the growing calf |
may not be too heavy on the system of |
the young COW. Two weeks before |
,alving. reduce the feed and give soft |
'ood, and do not return to full feed |
'or at least two weeks after calving. |
Many men have been successful in
-aising calves, who have not followed
he plan outlined in this paper, and
therefore l do not claim that other
Methods Of detail may not be just
Is good. The principles, however. re-
main always the same. Wise breeding
md judicious feeding, with a never
ending care for the health and COM
ort of the animals. will bring success,
md their neglect will just as surely
,ring defeat and disappointment.