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ELEMENTAEY AGRICULTURE 



'J^'iG. 11. An empty dinner pail. 



fattening foods for a few months before they are 

 sold to the butcher or the packer. 



Feeding Meal. When teaching a young calf to 

 eat meal, the farmer puts him in a box stall with 

 another, older calf, and the young one will learn 

 from his companion. Another way is to take a little 

 meal in the hand and put the hand in the mouth of 

 the young calf. (Fig. 11.) 



A Mixed Food. A good meal ration for calves is 

 a bushel of ground corn, a bushel of ground oats, a 

 peck and a half of wheat bran, and the same of oil 

 meal, all well mixed. As soon as calves will take 

 hay or fodder, it should be given to them. They 

 will begin to nibble and taste it when two or three 

 weeks old. The best hay is clover, alfalfa, or cow 

 peas. As soon as they begin to chew the cud, finely 

 cut hay is mixed with the meal. In this way one can 

 prepare the calf for weaning. (Fig. 12.) 



