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must be kept up by raising the cows on the farm. You have a 

 dairy already, no doubt, and some of the cows are much larger 

 producers than others. Breed only from your best cows. No 

 matter if a poor producing cow is as handsome as a picture and 

 her calf promises to be equally so, do not raise it. There are 

 two old sayings to keep ever in mindj ' Handsome is as hand- 

 some does,' and ' Like begets like.' Are you working long 

 days on the farm putting in crops, caring for them, harvesting 

 them and then feeding them to dairy cows that you may each 

 morning and evening go to the stable and look at a handsome 

 row of cows, or are you doing this work that you may receive 

 from the cows which consume the products of your toil, such 

 a bountiful return that the necessities and comforts of yourself 

 and family are abundantly provided for? 



" Remember that in breeding, the sire is half the herd and use 

 one only from a large-producing dam and descended from large 

 producers for as many generations back as possible. Then keep 

 using those of the same breed, thoroughbreds, if possible. Now 

 raise the calf well — yes, if you are aiming high in dairy returns, 

 raise it extra well. Do not start more calves than you can raise 

 extra well. Of the cows in my herd I have raised all but six. 

 The calves are given what new milk they will drink twice a clay 

 until they are four or five weeks old, then scalded oilmeal and 

 middlings in a thin gruel and at about bloodheat is gradually 

 substituted. Good hay and bran or mixed feed or ground oats 

 are kept by them until they will eat as much as is thought 

 best for them to have. A little salt should be added to each 

 feed or kept where the calves can help themselves. Also give 

 them what fresh water they will drink. After the milk is taken 

 off, whey is added to the scalded gruel and, if the calves are 

 started in the spring, as the weather becomes warm the oilmeal 

 and middlings are added to the whey without scalding. The oil- 

 meal and middlings are used in equal parts at first, later, one of 

 oilmeal and two of middlings and the quantity increased gradu- 

 ally until at from three to four months each calf will take a 

 quart of the mixture at a feed twice a clay. The calves may 

 be kept in the barn and fed hay or turned out during the sum- 

 mer, but keep the feed up and be sure they have plenty of 

 hay or grass. As cold weather comes on they must be put in 

 the barn. The slop may be gradually reduced, if desired, and 

 a little oilmeal added to the bran or other dry grain of which 

 they should receive four or five pounds a day during the winter 



