Substitutes for Skimmed Milk in Raising Calv^is. 501 



Lactina Suisse is a so-called vegetable milk powder manufactured at 

 Vevey, Switzerland, and at Lyons, France. It is imported into this 

 country and sold by John H. Lynch, New York, N. Y. It is claimed by 

 the manufacturers that Lactina Suisse is made in powder form from 

 vegetable matter almost exclusively, with the addition of some phosphate 

 of lime. Its chemical composition as guaranteed by the manufacturers is: 



Protein 29 . y^^ 



Fat 6 . 20^ 



Fiber 3 . 00^ 



Carbohydrates 44.01;^ 



Soluble phosphate 2-52^ 



Indeterminate matter 7.22 



Water 7 . 30^ 



Methods of feeding 



The calves were fed all the dry grain they would eat up clean each 

 day. This grain was mixed according to the formula : 



6 pounds corn and oats (ground half and half by weight). 

 3 pounds of wheat-bran. 

 I pound of oil-meal. 



Hay was kept before the calves at all times so that they could eat all 

 they wished. This was mixed hay, with a good percentage of clover. 

 Clean water was provided for each lot as the calves were judged to be old 

 enough to need it. All the pails used in feeding were washed daily and 

 scalded with hot water. The calves were kept in different pens, those 

 of about the same age being kept together. The pens were cleaned often 

 and were kept well bedded. The hay and dry grain were weighed daily 

 for each pen, the amounts added for each 30-day period and the results 

 averaged for each calf. The gruel from the calf meal and the Lactina 

 Suisse, and the milk were weighed for each individual calf at each 

 feed. 



In computing the cost of feed for each calf, whole milk was considered 

 to be worth $1.65 per hundred-weight, the price paid by the Station 

 Creamery to its patrons during the time the experiment was in progress. 

 Skimmed milk was charged to the calves at 15 cents per hundred- 

 weight; hay at $10 per ton; corn and oats at $30 per ton; bran at 

 $27 per ton ; oil-meal at $34.50 per ton, making the cost of the dry 

 grain mixture $29.55 P^r ton or $1.4775 pep hundred-weight. The Schu- 

 macher Calf Meal and the Lactina Suis,:?e cost respectively three and one- 

 half cents and six and one-half cents per pound delivered in Ithaca, N. Y. 



