O.r.rsday, April 22, 1909.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
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LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY.
TEN YEARS AHEAD
Raising the Dairy Calf.
OF ALL OTHER
Raise Only Calves From Good Cows and by Good Sires How
to Feed ana uare tor inem.
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By Felix
NE of the greatest drawbacks
to dairying is poor cows.
Feed and care are very im-
nnrtnnt. but the best feed and care
w ill not make a profitable animal out
of a cow with a capacity to produce
not more than 12 5 pounds of but-
tor 'i vna.1.
The safest way to get a profitable
herd of cows is to raise them. But
it is not easy or inexpensive to raise
n, dairy calf. So I would advise that
only calves from the most profitable
keot. A calf will inherit al
most every habit of its dam and its
information will be very much the
am. so unless a calf is very prom
ising I would not keep it' if its dam
has bad or objectionable habits or
has short teats or omer oujeuua
bio points
Too much care cannot be taken. in
selecting a bull to head the herd. He
should come from a line or ancestors
i, of ha done something, ms im
Att Ham hniild have a model
lllcuiaic
dairy form, and should show by ac
Voi w that, she is worth some
,wr ro not mind paying a good
price for the bull. Remember that he
c half thA herd. Then, when you
iiava hi in h e sure to give him the
right sort of feed and care. Do not
let him run with the herd. That
m min anv bull. Be as careful
with him as you would with your
. The Feeding of the Dairy Calf.
Th feeding of the dairy calf
ohr,iH hPffin even before it is born,
so that it will come fully developed
and strong and able to resist diseas
es. The cow should be dry six or
eight weeks. li sue is mnu
the time of calving, she will be giv
ing you what should be going io
fully develop her young. The ideal
feed for the dry cow is pea hay, oats
and bran. We feed corn ensilage,
pea hay, wheat bran and, until a few
days before calving, some cottonseed
meal. We feed liberally until a day
or two before calving. The first feed
a cow gets after calving is a mash
made by scalding equal parts of bran
and whole oats in a clean bucket and
fed as soon as cool enougn to ue
eaten.
The calf is allowed to have all the
milk its wants as soon as it can be
held up and let have-it. It is allow
ed to nurse the cow until it is four
or five days old, but is only let to
the cow at regular times, and is
watched carefully vto keep it from
getting too muchr A good rule is
to let it have hair tne .mil.
precaution should be taken to keep
" off even the least attack of disease.
If the calf can be kept from disease
until it is ten weeks old it is very
easy to keep it well from then on,
but each attack makes it more sus
ceptible to another. At five days old
it is ready to betaken from its
mother. It pays to have a separate
stall for each calf, and a partition
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dampness. A lattice floor can be
made for each stall, to be put on
top of plank or cement floor, the
plank or cement floor to nave a
slant and a drip box or a manure
entter. This lattice floor can be
raised and cleaned from under, but
plenty of bedding must be used to
make it comfortable.
Teach the Calf to Drink From a Pail.
We use a feeder for a few days.
Tt la far easier to teach a calf td
take its milk, from a pail after it hasj
first learned to drink from a feederi
And the calf starts off much better;
provided the feeder is kept perfectly
clean. For ten days the calf should
havA warm milk from its own dam,
four pounds at a feed twice per aay.
If the calf is very small, it should
not have quite so much, three or
three and a half pounds at a feed.
A snrinkle of oats an bran snoum
be put in a feed box before it as soon
as it is put to itself, and it should be
offered a little clean, brightj hay, too.
Rut he careful not to throw in so
much that it will be mussed over. It
should be trained to eat hay in large
nnantitv. and if too much is given at
one time it will not relish it the next
time it is fed. At two weeks old tne
calf should be getting as grain feed
eaual parts by weight or ungrounu
corn and oats and bran, j By this
time the change to skimmed milk
will have begun. It should take two
wppks to sret the calf entirely on
skimmed milk, gradually diminish-
j
ing whole milk and increasing sKim-
med milk. Care must be taken to
have the skimmed milk warm a
therometer is as necessary in feed
ing calves as in butter making.
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They are:
Feeding
Keep the Calf Thrifty, but Do Not
Fatten It.
The grain feeds should increase,
but great care must be taken not to
feed enough to fatten. It is equally
as bad to have a calf too fat as too
poor. Skimmed milk should be, grad
ually increased until at four months
old nine pounds at a feed is fed. By
this time it should be getting all
the corn ensilage and pea hay it will
the whole oats and corn
should begin to diminish gradually
and the bran be increased to
tPirn thA nlace of it. At six months
of age, corn and oats should be cut
nnt nnri bran and cottonseed meai,
or bran alone, be fed with pea hay
or,, onsHncro Skimmed milk is fed
.1111 'tho pnlf is a vearling. A calf
win nnt do well on a pasture unti
if i nirift or ten montns oia, ana iueu
it is best to feed some grain unless
pasture is very good. ;
When the heifer is 17 months old
and has grown well, she should be
bred, and, if possible, given a place
in the barn with the milking herd.
If it is winter, she should have all
the corn ensilage and hay she can be
induced to eat, with Just a little
cottonseed meal and bran. If she is
on good pasture, she will be all right
on it alone until a few months be
fore calving, when it is best to be
gin feeding grain. j
This is the only time I would ad-
.rlon TOO Arsr onrnizh. to fatten. I
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think it best to have her reasonbly
fat by the time she calves.
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Five Things to be Avoided.
unknown.
too mucn; z) ieeams cuiu n,
(3)feeding from dirty buckets; (4)
'eeding irregularly, and (5) keeping
n foul, wet quarters. f
We take great pride in oir calves,
and it is not . uncommon iqr one oi
our two-year-olds to produce more
than a six- or eight-year-old dam that
has had only ordinary care as a can.
Summing up tne inings - iuti
should be done in properly .raising a
dairy calf, I would say that they are:
First, keeping the calf free from dis
ease. Second, feed witn an pojeci
to make muscle and bone and devel
op a barrel. Third, teach tfte calf to
bo handled, and be luna ana gntie
with it always.
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The first requisite in the econom
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