The Question Box. iqi 



Question.- Does it pay to veal calves at five and a half cente 

 per pound, with milk worth $1.05 per hundred pounds' 



Mr. Smith.- The farmers up in Jefferson county claim it does: 

 1 do not know. ' 



Question.— What causes scours in calves ? What will Pre- 

 vent it ? l 



_ Dr. Smead.— There are two causes. One is overfeeding, or 

 improper feeding from an unclean vessel. Very many times the 

 calf is allowed to become very hungry, and swallows very rapidly 

 the milk given it, which distends the stomach and causes indi- 

 gestion, .^asty troughs, which one may smell as far as they can 

 be seen, will cause the disease. 



Captain Murphy.— The trouble with our calves is, they die 

 from the disease before they are a week old. 



Dr. Smead. — That comes from the causes I spoke of this 



morning. 



Dr. Hatch. — I do not fully agree with Dr. Smead; I am of 

 opinion that the cause is unbalanced rations given the mother of 

 the calf. 



Question. — Will the disease appear in calves whose mothers 

 give only three per cent, milk? 



Dr. Smead. — Yes; the per cent, of fat does not seem to make 

 much difference with the disease. 



Question. — I feed bran and oil meal to my calves after they 

 are four weeks old, in milk and water. Can I improve the ration? 



Mr. Witter. — It is an excellent ration, but I should feed the 

 grain dry, after the milk. Digestion is begun in the mouth, 

 where the feed is mixed with the saliva. If fed in the milk, this 

 will not take place. 



Question. — What should be added to separator milk to make 

 a balanced ration for calves? 



Mr. Witter. — As soon as they will eat anything, give them a 

 few unground oats. A little oil meal is excellent. It has a 

 medicinal as well as a food value. Bran and wheat middlings are 

 also good. 



SOME OF THE GEASSES. 



Question. — Where clover fails, to what extent will Hungarian 

 grass or millet take its place as a food? 



Mr. Goodrich. — Hungarian grass is, probably, as good a grass 

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