Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-03-26
Raising e,ss Calf on Skim
med MIR.

IOyptooi mlocouEi lhTuler iauRueO
at the idea Of raising calves in
any other than the natural way.
However, recently the high price
OF land has made it impossible for
any profit to be made raising
calves in the good old way.
Farmers who have figured care
fully on this proposition have con-
cluded that when land gets above
500 an acre it becomes impossible
to keep a COW for the chance of a
calf. Ten years ago there were
but few farmers paying any at
tention to thessle of milk orcream.
Now there are fully $4,000 in Mis-
souri, thot are counting on this as
a part of their income. These
farmers are mostly selling cream
for buttermaking purposes. and
raising the calf by hand. There
was a time when it was thought
that q calf raised on skim milk
must necessarily be stuntsd in
size, unthrifty in appearance and
one that q respectable farmer
wouldnot,wish tohave on Misplace
1t is well understood now by most
farmers that are selling cream
that such calves are entirely un-
necessary and in fact arenot caus-
ed by feeding of skim milk, but
from carelessness and ignorance
regarding proper methods of
feeding.
The man who proposes to raise
calves on skim milk must, first OF
all, get the idea out of his mind
that such calves are necessarily
unthrifty. He must not be salts
fed with his work until he is able
to raise calf in this manner that
is good ssone raised by its mother.
The feeding of the calf by hand
should begin at least within three
days after its birth. Some pre-
fer to take the calf away from it's
mother before it has nursed and
begin feeding by hand at once.
Others prefer to leave the calf
with the COW from two to four
days. They should not be allow
ed to run longer than that on ac-
count OF the fact that the older
the calf is, the harder it is to teach
it to drink from bucket, and the
morethe mother is disturbed when
IL is removed. The calf should be
placed out of the sight of the
mother and allowed to pass over
one feeding period before an at
tempt is made to teach it to drink.
1t is practically useless to attempt
10 get a calf to drink unless it is
hungry. No special difficulty is
experienced in getting the calf to
drink from pail. The usual
method is to allow the calf to suck
the finger for a short time until it
will keep its nose in the pail itself.
THE milk fed should be fresh milk
from the mother fed before it has
time to cool. The calf need not
be fed more than twice a day, al
Though it is somewhat better II
convenient to feed il three times.
The feeding Of the mothers milk
should be continued for about
1.-TWO weeks time, feeding not over
Is quarts at a feed or possibly a
gallon each feed to q large calf.
AT the end of about two weeks the
calf is ready to begin the feeding
of skim milk. 1t Is best to make
the change from the whole milk tc
skim milk gradually, using sever.
sl days for this purpose. At the
end OF three weeks the calf should
oe receiving nothing but skin
milk. It Is very important tha
, this skim milk be fresh, sweet ant
warm. The young calf is deli
cate animal for the first two O
three months Of Its life and spec.
!. .lial attention must be given h
Ikeeping the conditions just righl
during this time. There Is NJ
Idifzculty in raising the calf viz
n perfect satisfaction, II the neces
s8rv preoautions are observed