The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-11-11

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Raising Calves by Hand.
Dakota Farmer: In most cases milk
and butter are the prime objects in keep
ing cows. 1t is important to know how
to grow good calves without feeding the
butter fat contained in whole milk. We
know from long experience that this is
not a difficult thing to do. used to
think, says a writer in the Commercial
Gazette, that the only way was to let the
calf draw a part of the milk from the
COW, and know that good calves can be
grown in that way. But we now prefer
to feed them entirely by hand even when
trying myself to raise an extra good
calf. The only advantages in letting
the calf suck are that it gets the cream
contained in the milk, it takes it in a
natural manner, and at just the right
temperature. Fed in this way they are
not so apt to have scours as when fed by
hand. But we cannot afford to feed bnt-
ter fat which may be substituted, at
first with oil meal jelly, and later on
with mill feed, corn meal, etc. If care
full to give the milk at blood heat and
keep the stall clean and sweet, there
will TO little trouble from SCOUTS. We
have grown some pretty good calves and
have never grown any very bad ones
IOnr method is about like this: For the
first three or four DAYS the calf is allow
ea to run with the cow. Nothing is
equal to the FIRST milk TO start the stom-
ach and bowels to working right, and
the dairy writer's tell us that this fosters
the feeling of motherhood In the,cow
and tends to increase the dow of milk.
1t is then given its first lesson in feeding
by placing the hand in the milk with
the fingers turned upward in its mouth.
in a few days it learns to eat without
the fingers and then it is a light job to
feed and care for it. At first it is fed
new whole milk but by the time all fever
is gone from the cows udder, it may be
fed on SKINNED milk. To this should be
added some oil meal jelly, made bv dis
solving about two tablespoonful Of oil
meal in hot water. This may be grad
ually increased to half a pound of oil
meal at a feed, but this is enough up to
two months old. The calf should have
access to grass or. some fine sweet hay,
that it may early develop the first stom-
ach and begin chewing its cud. At two
months old it will ca! quite freely of
various foods, and should have all the
mill feed, corn meal or ground oats it
will lick up clean twice Il day.
By this time the oil meal may be left
out, though it would be better to still
feed a little Of it. The greatest trouble
with calves raised by hand is scours
This may come from various causes but
is generally brought on by sour milk,
foul stalls or by feeding too much at
one time and not enough at another.
When first signs are noticed, give an egg
or two, beaten fine, in its milk. This
will usually check it but if not a hand
full of wheat flour, fed in the same way,
will be found good. The scours will
easily he detected BY the smell in the
stall. 1t Is almost useless to Try and
cure the calf and keep it healthy unless
the stall is kept perfectly clean and dry.
The best writers we have eyer read
advise mixing the ground feed with the
milk. 1t is not the intention to set up
my own opinion in opposition to these,
but some of the worst attacks of scolrs
we ever had were brought on in this
way. There is no mistake about it. OF
course some calves are worse in that re-
spect than others, but l have come to re-
gard the practice with suspicion. We
now feed all ground feed dry, in a rather
large trough, so it is compelled 10 eat it
slowly. Thus the saliva in abundance
is mixed with the feed, and this first
step in digestion is helped. The calf
should never be fed sour milk, especially
when young. Clabber. dishwater and
buttermilk are good for the pigs, but
they are lingering death to the calf. It
is a mistake to allow the calf to run
with the COW. After il is a few weeks
old it will almost worry the life out of
the COW. For all ordinary purposes it
never pays for this kind Of raising. AT.
ter weaving 1t is too dainty. There is
nothing good enough for it to eat. 1t
pines and frets, loses in condition and at
a year old is not much better than ii
properly r..isad by feeding on skinned
milk
The calf that is we'll raised by hand is
always ready to eat anything that is
good. There is no cheek in its growth
from weaving. 1t is healthy, sleek and
saucy, and every time you feed it you
have the proof before your eyes that
good calves can be raised by hand.
In growing the calf, OF any other
young animal for that matter, let US re-
member that every ponnd of growth re-
presents SO much food. There ia no
game of chance in any line OF stock feed
ing by which we may sometimes get
something for nothing. In this. all is
eyenhanded Justice-sr much growth for
so much feed and care-but never SO
mach growth for nothing.
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