1882.] QUESTION BOX. 215 



Mr. KiMBERLEY. I Say by feeding those cows high enough 

 to make them give twelve pails of milk a day. 



Mr. Gold. Various kinds of porridge are provided as 

 substitutes for part of the milk with very great advantage. 

 I have never found anything better than a porridge made 

 from linseed meal and flour ; but, as the gentleman says, a 

 porridge of wlieat meal would doubtless be the best addition 

 to the milk of those cows. 



Mr. Barnaed. I would like to ask Mr. Gold what quanti- 

 ties of oil meal he would use a day for a small calf ? 



Mr. Gold. We never feed anything but pure milk when 

 the calves are young. After the calves get to be a few weeks 

 old, we begin by putting a handful of oil meal into two or 

 three quarts of water, which is scalded, and when it is cool 

 enough to be mixed with the milk, it is used. Then we in- 

 crease the oil meal and diminish the milk, increasing the 

 amount of porridge which is given, sometimes substituting 

 Indian meal or wheat meal for a part of the oil meal ; but 

 linseed meal has liad my preference. Mr. Hart can speak 

 upon the subject of feeding calves upon linseed meal. 



Mr. Hart. I can answer that question by saying that I 

 have raised calves that never knew what milk was, never 

 were fed with milk at all. I am now raising calves, or they 

 are being raised on my farm, with a less proportion of milk 

 than twelve calves to four cows. I do not purpose that they 

 shall have any milk after they are about three weeks old. 

 They are now fed on skim milk, and getting a less quantity 

 than-twelve calves would get from four good cows. My sub- 

 stitute is ground oats mixed with the milk. Warm water is 

 added to the milk and to the oat gruel, and they are allowed 

 to eat through the day, as they want, dry oats ground, with 

 hay. They are doing very finely, and when I was on my farm 

 last week, I found they were progressing very satisfactorily. 

 This is an important matter to milk producers. Tlie shippers 

 of milk in the Housatonic Valley, when they first commenced, 

 relied upon cows that were brought in from New York State, 

 or wherever they could be obtained, and ceased raising their 



