236 MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Let's tell the truth now. There are dual purpose cows. There will 

 be vastly more. You are going to milk them on your farm. You are 

 bound to do it on this high-priced land. We have got to get the most 

 income from our land. How are we going to get calves from those cows 

 and make the most money? In the first place, they ought to be born in 

 the fall. When they are born you must let it run with its mother a little 

 while, but not too long. One day is long enough. Don't let it run with 

 her a week. Why not? In the back of the little calf's neck there is a 

 spring, and every day that that calf runs with its mother that spring 

 gets bigger and bigger ; and after he has run with his mother for a few 

 days take him out and teach him to drink. He comes up to the bucket of 

 milk and you take him by both ears and you pull and push, and by the 

 time you get his little nose up to the milk you have got his hind feet off 

 the ground. Now, that's not the way to do. You must make him think 

 you are his mother. Wet your finger with the milk and let him taste it, 

 and then make him follow your finger until he gets his nose in the milk. 

 I have taught a thousand of them to drink, and it is no trouble if you go 

 at him right. He must have the mother's whole milk for quite awhile — 

 for about a week or ten days he must have the mother's whole milk, and 

 very gradually reduce to skimmed milk, and you will find that he will 

 hardly notice the change at all. You will need a cream hand separator 

 to separate the milk as quickly as possible after milking, before it gets 

 germs in it. And I will say to the boys that the daughters of the house 

 are turning the hand separators. That means that that is going to make 

 a new race of husbands in this country, because those girls are developing 

 Avonderful muscle. 



Well, when you separate that milk and give the skim milk to those 

 little calves, they think it is just as good as the milk they get froin their 

 mothers — almost. It is true that you have taken something out of it, and 

 so you must put something back in place of what has been taken out. 1 

 am not sure just what is best. Flax seed jelly is good. Simply take the 

 whole flax and put it in hot water and make a jelly, and put that in the 

 milk. 



As soon as the little calf is old enough to change from whole milk 

 to skim milk, give him a little shelled corn right after each meal, and 1 

 say you can make them grow just as well that way as by sucking th(? 

 mother. Some men say that is not so. It will not do to have one big trough 

 for them all to come to, because the big ones will get too much and the 

 little ones will get pushed back, and then the next day another one will 

 get too much. No, that will not do. Every calf must have his own place 

 to eat. The 1)cst plan is to have little box stalls — one for each of your 

 calves — have the stalls six or eight feet square; but another way is to 



