HOW TO RAISE A CALF ON SKIM MILK 6t 



changing the feed give 1 1 Ibs. whole milk and i Ib. 

 skim milk, warm and sweet. The second day give 

 10 Ibs. whole milk and 2 Ibs. skim (separator) milk. 

 The third day 9 Ibs. whole milk and 3 Ibs. separator 

 milk, warm and sweet ; and continue this until the 

 young animal is only taking sweet separator milk. 



The writer makes no excuse for repeating the 

 words "sweet and warm," for that is the whole 

 secret of successful calf raising by hand and by use 

 of skim milk. By " sweet " skim milk sugar sweet- 

 ness is not meant, but sweet or fresh as opposed 

 to sour or acid, for it is impossible to raise a calf 

 successfully if it has fresh one day and sour the 

 next. The warm milk need not be kept up after 

 the calf begins to take other food, but the skim 

 milk must always be fresh. Calves from three to 

 five weeks old will require 10 to 12 Ibs. daily. 

 When from seven to eight weeks old they will need 

 14 to 1 6 Ibs. daily, and when three or four months 

 old 1 8 to 20 Ibs. daily, fed morning and evening. 



It is not necessary to buy high-priced patent calf 

 meals to take the place of the fat removed from the 

 milk. These patent foods are unnecessary and do 

 not give any better results than two grains grown 

 on your own farm, viz. mealie meal and Kaffir corn 

 meal, for it has been found in the most exhaustive 

 experiments in Europe and America that carbo- 

 hydrates are able to do the work of fats if the latter 

 are not present in a food. The fats present in a 



