1G0 Bukeau of Farmers' Institutes. 



calf without some mother's milk for at least three weeks. One man 

 may succeed in growing a nice calf without milk, hut 90 will 

 fail who try (he experiment. 



Question- - How many pounds of milk will it require to grow 

 a calf to 150 pounds? 



Mr. Aldrich. — I will have to do a little figuring before I an- 

 swer the question. A calf weighing 80 pounds will require COO 

 pounds of milk. I made some experiments to find out how much 

 milk was required to make a pound weight. When a calf was 

 three or four days- old it required seven pounds; the next week, 

 eight pounds; the next, nine pounds, or an average of eight 

 pounds; so that it required not far from 600 pounds to make a 

 weight of 150 pounds at four weeks. 



Question. — Will Mr. Gould describe a young calf that will 

 make a good cow? 



Answer. — I should first want to see 'the mother of the calf, 

 then the calf, then the owner. A calf may be well-born and de- 

 scend from good parentage, but be spoiled in bringing up. 



Question. — What is the best food for a calf six months old? 



Mr. Lillie. — Corn ensilage, clover hay and wheat bran — all it 

 will eat. Oats will do, but they are too expensive. 



Mr. Smith. — As a rule, people go to extremes in keeping calves. 

 They give them too much when young and starve them later on. 

 Feed the calf three times a day at first, a quart at a time, and 

 increase the quantity proportionately as the calf grows older. 



Question. — Should calves, to be raised, be allowed to suckle 

 their mothers? 



Mr. Lillie. — Some of the best dairymen I know do not allow 

 the calf to suckle the cow at all, but we allow it once or twice. 



Question. — Will Mr. Gould tell us how to raise heifer calves, 

 in stable, first season, with hay, grass, clover and grain? 



Mr. Gould. — Give it a good start on its mother's milk, 

 then follow with skim milk and oil meal, and, later, oats. 

 Clover hay should be given as much as possible. Do not 'feed any 

 corn, hut bran and clover and that class of foods. We feed onr 

 little calves very nearly as we do our milch cows. The calf will 

 chew food, because its stomach is a milk one. As a rule, the calf 

 becomes a ruminant at about the age of five or six weeks; or, in 

 other words, when it begins to chew its cud. One of the darkest 

 places is the inside of a cow's stomach. T doubt if a cow, which 

 eats 10 or 50 pounds of ensilage per day, raises and remasticates 

 it all. 



