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the summer, be sure to have it cut some time before and 

 allow it to wilt before feeding. Ground oats, bran or shorts 

 may be given it now. It can be easily taught to eat them, 

 too. Take a little in your hand when you go to feed it milk, 

 and when it has finished let it rub its nose in your hand. 

 Some of the oats will stick to its nose. It will lick them 

 off, and by repeating this a few times the calf will have 

 acquired a liking for them, when they can be placed in its 

 manger. This method of feeding may be continued until 

 the calf is seven to eight months old. As has been stated 

 at the outset, this method of feeding the dairy calf is not 

 intended to produce fat, but it develops a strong, well 

 muscled frame. If the calf has been furnished sufficient 

 palatable coarse fodder, it will have developed, too, a large 

 roomy abdomen and digestive organs, without which we can 

 have no dairy animal. The greatest success has been 

 achieved with calves dropped in the fall. In the winter time 

 the farmer has more time to care for them, and when spring 

 comes and with it the succulent, nutritious grass of the pas- 

 tures, the young thing can be turned out and will make 

 steady and rapid growth. 



Above all things do not allow your dairy animals to 

 acquire the habit of putting on fat. If you do so by feeding 

 them fat producing foods, such as corn, timothy hay, etc., 

 you will spoil what otherwise might have been an excellent 

 dairy animal. 



The calf should for the first few months be kept inside 

 in clean, comfortable quarters, with plenty of light and pure 

 air. Keep the young things healthy. In winter they should 

 be protected from the cold, and in summer from the heat and 

 flies. Never allow grain to be left over in the manger from 

 one feeding time to another. Cleanliness should also be 

 observed in the matter of feeding the calf from a clean pail. 

 Do not ask the calf to drink from a sour, foul smelling pail, 

 as this may give rise to serious digestive trouble. This 

 method applies to both heifer and bull calves. 



