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when running loose in a pen, but there is no 

 necessity to keep them tied up during the day. 

 They may be turned into a camp away from the 

 cows. 



The calf should be kept constantly growing from 

 the time it is born until it has reached full size, and 

 this should be done by giving it plenty of hay and 

 roughage all he can eat, with only a small amount 

 of mealie or Kaffir corn. When calves are allowed 

 plenty of hay and a good pasture the digestive 

 organs become well developed. This means a 

 stomach capable of holding and digesting a large 

 amount of food, which is necessary to every animal 

 which is to become profitable. 



When they are five to six months old they may 

 be weaned gradually from the skim milk by reducing 

 the amount given each day until they are getting 

 none at all a week being about the time necessary. 

 If plenty of grass veld is available, with shelter and 

 water, young weaned stock could have no better 

 quarters or feed. 



To summarise we cannot do better than give 

 the following extract from The Jersey Bulletin and 

 Dairy World: 



" About 70 per cent, of the 1,242,700 dairy 

 calves reared in Wisconsin each year must be raised 

 on skim milk," writes Professor D. H. Otis, of the 

 Agricultural Experimental Station, Madison, U.S.A. 

 " By good care and proper feeding several dollars 



