The Globe-republican., 1900-04-19
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How suece.sfai Farmers Operate This
Departments OF the Farm-A Few
Hints shs Care OF Live stock
and Poultry.
Feeding pa.rr Calves.

Feeding Dairy Calves
There is discussion going on in |
some OF our esteemed contemporaries |
regarding the feeding of young dairy |
calves, and it Is rather amusing to note /
some of the extravagant statements |
made by those who argue that q calf |
can be more successfully raised with |
out milk than 1t can on the good old
plan provided by the Creator II, for
instance, we are to believe these en-
thusiasts, the feeding OF milk is liable
to teach the calf the bad habit OF lay
ing on fat instead OF flesh and muscle,
and the growing of bone Milk, then.
we must conclude. is a fat-producing
food not fit for young growing calves.
a fallacy that requires no refuting
argument
They proceed to prescribe a manner
of feeding which. according to these
SavantS who improve upon
lures methods, Is better than milk for
the calf, in that it does not produce fat.
causes --pot-be1l1es.' which say they
are a great deSideratum for modern
dairy calves, and tends to the growth
OF great coats of hair in winter to take
the place of fat which they much
fear Having thus provided what they
consider a perfect ration. and 1t con-
sists Of flour, fax-seed jelly. hay tea,
etc, they do not tell what is the OBJ
| lection to sweet skim milk. nor figure
| the cost of their ration to show wherein
| 1t is more economical than ration of
| dry corn meal and skim milk. which
| mas been found perfectly satisfactory
| ration and cheaper than one contain
ing oil meal in any form, and it should
| be remembered that of all its forms
| Jelly is the most troublesome to pre-
| pare
| The fact of the matter is that in the
West at least the proposed ration
| would cost about as much as milk at
| the prices it has been bringing when
| shipped to the factory made into
| butter or cheese. In the East. where
| the price of milk is higher-than in the
| West, there may be reason for depriv-
ing the young calves of it even during
| the first few days of their lives We
| would prefer, however. to feed the calf
| sweet milk for ten days or so and then
utilize the sweet skim milk that can so
easily and cheaply build up. by the
| addition of corn meal fed dry. to per
| fectly take the place of the whole milk
which can be more prohtably sold
The Farmers Review is heartily IL
favor of feeding growing dairy calves
upon a highly nitrogenous ration. but
it does not believe that milk IS apt &c
spoil a heifer prospective mixer
i for mothers milk is the best-baianced
ration that can possibly be formed FOL
growing young animals. and it is alb
sOlute bOsh to say that it lessons t.
chances of dairy-bred heifer becom
| ing a profitable milking COW keel
the calf growing naturally and it vii
not be stunted by the laying on of fat
nor is it necessary to produce a pot
belly which merely indicates an I'm
, healthy state of the digestive apparatu
and is far more likely to stunt and in
lure the calf than a ration containing
certain proportion of fat. withou
which ration for any known pur
pose would be complete.