Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-01-02

them TO produce good yield of milk
how kindly he cared for them etc.,
think the ideal manager IL found
but upon looking over the fence in
another pen I see a lot OF little
scrawny half starved calves l begin
to wonder that the fellow has escaped
arrest on the charge of cruelty to
animals.
Before this discussion is over some
theoretical would be scientist will
probably bob up with statement as
to how much protein, and bone and
muscle forming properties sterilized
milk from the creameries contains
but the deteriorated calf crop in ali
localities where creameries exist an
swers it all.
When my cows drop their calves
| allow them to ruu together units
all swelling in the cows bag disap-
pears, then l separate them, putting
the calves in an alfalfa pasture field
in which l have fixed up some feed
boxes. In two or three week I com
mence putting in ttese boxes bran,
shorts, shelled oats, almost anything
of that character TO get them started
to eating. 1 let the COWS ard calves
together twice day for three months
then once day for two weeks. By
this time the calves are eating a good
ration twice day Of shelled oats and
corn, and with good pasture and
plenty Of pure water, nature will do
the rest. have calves raised tbi :
way that compare very favorabl,
with calves that are allowed to run
With their dams the six months or
the whole summer season, and
much prefer them. as they winter
better and are more gentle and docil.
when they come to maturity. Ii,
spoils most cows for dairy purposes
to allow the calves to run with them
and young cows bag will not devel-
ope properly. Ii a calf comes in fall
or winter time, | trea: it same way
except feed alfalfa hay in lieu O
the pasture. In summer time tn.
COWS come up at night for their calves
without going 30 the far side of tn.
pasture after them. 1 pasture nv
COWS in summer on prairie grass, in
the fall on clover and timothy. In
winter allow them to run with herd
and 1 feed shock corn in morning and
clover hay at night and they milk
good on it.
Solne may set up the claim that
by my plan of raising the calf, too
much OF the valuable milking time
OF the COW is consumed, but the calf
is paying for the milk and doing it's
own milking and especially Is this
the case if five and fifteen dollars is
the relative value of skim milk caves
and good ones. After,I wean the
calves L send the milk to the cream
cry, aud it gives far better returns
than to manufacture at home to saw
nothing of the extra labor it costs
The milk bears a better test than
when the cow is fresh and from late
summer on the butter fat, as a rule.
is worth more.
The return milk from The creamery
is good pig feed and this being
about the time the pigs are taken of
the sows comes in just right. /
raised lot Of good pigs kept in a
close pen on this milk fed with corn.
Just sold seventeen of them to
cattle feeder that averaged I45 lbs
l am fully aware that that weigh,
for six months old pigs does not come
up to the reported growth made nj
the Manhattan experiment static,
but they beat the tight pen. corn
and water pigs so far that compari.
son is out Of the question.
Now, if Bro. Maxwell, or arv one
else can get any information ont of
my experience that will be Of anv
value to them they are welcome 70 il
L H. GEsr.