344 Feeds and Feeding. 



can lie and stand comfortably. The floor of the stall is of lattice 

 work or perforated boards and littered daily so that the animal 

 has a perfectly dry berth. The staiils are 6.5 feet long by 1.6 

 broad and abont 5 feet high. The calf barn is kept dai'k. (89) 

 Twice or three times daily the calves get as much milk as they 

 will drink, and during the first fourteen days only the dam's milk 

 is fed. Eggs or other by-feeds are not given. The calf consumes 

 about 34 pounds of full milk daily on the average for the whole 

 fattening period of ten or twelve weeks, at which time the veal is 

 considered to be at its best. To prevent calves from eating feed 

 other than milk they are muzzled if straw or other roughage 

 is used for bedding. Finely-ground shells and sand are given to 

 prevent scouring. The dressed weight ranges from 187 to 220 

 pounds, or, according to Rost, ^ from 220 to 330 pounds. One 

 pound of gain is made in the beginning from eight pounds of 

 milk, and toward the close from twelve pounds, the average 

 being ten pounds. * 

 The fat calf dresses from 55 to 60 per cent, of its live weight. 



» Molk. Zeit., 1894, p. 547. 



» Krartt, Landwirtschaft, III, p. 163. 



