254 Bureau of Farmers' Institutes. 



What is the best method iu which to feed calves linseed meal? 



A Farmer. — Put it into the milk and let tliom drink it. 



Mr. Sampson. — I tbink it is better to cook it. 



Mr. Litchard. — I saw it being fed in Henry Stevens' barn, at 

 Lacona, to calves. The}- brought it cooked to the barn and added 

 the milk to it. 



Dr. Smead. — I have seen calves injured by feeding them linseed 

 meal. I prefer to feed, first the milk and then either feed the 

 ground flaxseed or the flaxseed oil. We want to add something 

 to the milk to replace the butter-fat removed from it by skim- 

 ming. I prefer, at first, a little jelly made of the linseed meal. 

 It is not necessary to cook it, because it has been cooked in the 

 process of extracting the oil from the seed. Later, when the calf 

 has begun to eat something solid, the meal may be fed. It is 

 dangerous to feed linseed meal to calves a week old. 



What is the best feed for calves when one has not enough milk? 



Mr. Cook. — Give the young calf, if it is worth raising, its 

 mother's milk for the first two or three weeks, then gradually 

 work off on to skimmed milk with some ground oats, wheat mid- 

 dlings and a little oil meal mixed with it. A little good sweet 

 whey, with the foregoing grains mixed with it, makes a good 

 ration. Our sweet whey paid us fully 7 cents per 100 pounds 

 when fed in that way. But, if I were going to feed Jersey milk 

 to young calves, I would take out some of the fat through the 

 separator to prevent scours, which very rich milk induces. I 

 believe that if one were going to raise calves, he could do no 

 better than to go out and buy the thinnest, poorest Holstein 

 milker he could find, and then feed that cow's milk unskimmed, 

 to the cah'es. 



Which is preferable, to raise calves or veal, or sell them? 



Mr. Ward. — It will depend. If the calves are ordinary scrubs, 

 veal and get rid of them just as soon as possible. Don't keep 

 Buch calves on the farm a day longer than is needed to get them 

 ready for the butcher. But, if they are good full bloods and have 

 the requisites for making good cows, raise them. 



