Rural School Leaflet 



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wasp of hay, it will eat dry grain. A very good mixture is the fol- 

 lowing : 



30 pounds wheat bran 



30 pounds ground oats 



30 pounds com meal 



10 pounds oil meal 



This mixture should be placed in a box nailed to the side of the pen. A 

 calf should never be fed dry grain in the pail from which it takes milk, and 



Group of calves raised on skimmed milk, hay, and grain 



the grain should never be mixed, with the milk. When the calf is three 

 or four weeks old, and after it has finished drinking milk, some of the 

 grain mixture should be put into its mouth. At the same time some of 

 the grain should be left in the feed box. The calf will soon learn to like 

 grain, will find the box, and will eat it regularly. A calf should be fed 

 all the grain it will eat up clean after having its milk. Some persons 

 keep grain before their calves all the time. 



Raising calves when little milk is available 

 Substitutes for skimmed milk. — On many farms all the milk is sent to 

 market in the raw state. Raising calves on such farms is much more 



