The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-01-31
OPPORTUNITY FOR DAIRYMEN
Industry Is Paying In Most Sections OF
Statehood Time to Raise Heif-
er Calves.
BY J. A. WALDRON,
Extension Agent in Dairying, Michigan
Agricultural College.

AGRICULTURAL OouC4Cs
East Lansing, Mich. - Michigan
dairymen are awakening by inches to
"A realization that for them the pres
ent is a season of opportunity
In few restricted areas where low
prices for milk-often set by previ-
Gus contract-still prevail, and where
the high cost of feed and dearth or
help are felt most keenly, the business
may not be yielding as comfortably as
of old, but the industry on the whole
is returning-as good a profit now as 1t
ever did. Slowly, though none the less
surely, prices are gradually reaching
level commensurate with the cost or
labor and feed, and for the producer
of dairy cattle the future has never
seemed more hopeful.
A number of reasons underly this
improved prospect. Within the past
three years, exports of dairy products
from the United States to Europe have
grown immensely, while the need for
cattle has increased enormously as q
result of the widespread slaughtering
of European herds. 1t has been estl-
mated that at the present time there
| is a world shortage of 3O,OOO,OOO head.
.For q man who reads the writing on
the wall this means that the present Is
time when heifer calves from good
dairy cows should be raised.
Old dairymen know, however, that
upon the treatment accorded this CALI
will depend In no small measure the
usefulness of the dairy COW raised
from It. The youngster must be
drought up" with proper attention TO
feeding and other details.
A few suggestions which may be
helpful in raising and developing a
dairy heifer calf are accordingly Of
fered:
First-The dairy calf should be CIV
en- it's mothers milk for the first zen
days, and If IT is weak individual, 1or
at least three or four weeks.
Second-The calf should not bt
overfed. About two quarts at feec
is sufficient.
Third-Feed three times daily fol
the first three weeks.
Fourth-The change from whole
milk to skim milk should be mace
gradually. during period of ten days
At the same time the number OF feed
given daily should be reduced from
three to two.
Fifth-Increase gradually the fee'
allowance until the calf is receiVin
> from four to five quarts per feed.
Slxth-Replace the fat lacking in tn
skim milk by feeding such things Il
ground oats and corn, with a littl
bran.
Seven-Teach the calf to eat graf
: by placing dry grain in the bottom G
the pail, or directly in its mouth.
Eighth-Feed bright, clean hay.
y NInth-Prevent scours by reguln
/ feeding. feeding in clean pals, avoi'
ing over-feedng, providing clean, Or
n stables; allowing plenty of sunlight
II enter. and by keeping the manger FIRE
from sour feed.
II If skim milk is not available, the 10
II lowing hOme-mixed calf meal. mr.
u tried by the Purdue experiment ST
Is ton. has been found to give excellel
II results: HOminy or cOrnmeal,
meal O. p, blood -four and red-d'
n flour or flour middlings. in equal part
c. at the rate of one pound Of miXtu
L to one gallon of water. This shou
a be fed like skim milk, though not
IS excess of one gallon at feed.