70 PROFITABLE DAIRYING 



at a time. More calves are spoiled by overfeeding 

 than by underfeeding. After the first week gradually 

 substitute warm sweet skimmed milk for the full milk 

 and add a little flaxseed or oil-cake meal. Prepare 

 this daily by soaking five or six times the bulk of the 

 meal in warm water until it becomes a jelly. Start 

 with a tablespoonful of this, well stirred into the feed, 

 slowly increasing the amount. Loosening of bowels 

 or other indication of indigestion is proof that too 

 much is being fed. 



At the third week begin to add a little wheat mid- 

 dlings. At that time the feed may consist of warmed 

 skimmed milk, oil-cake meal, and wheat middlings, 

 with a little fine ground corn-meal added in winter. 

 After the second week two feeds a day will do. Six 

 quarts of milk a day with oil-cake meal and wheat 

 middlings is abundant. A quart of hot water may 

 be added to each feed to warm the milk. It is an 

 easy way to warm the milk, and will be attended with 

 good results. 



As soon as the calf begins to eat hay, feed clover 

 cut when it begins to blossom, and placed where 

 available. Corn-meal should be sparingly fed in 

 winter, but not at all in summer. In winter it should 

 not form over one-third of the grain feed at any 

 time. Corn-meal keeps the animal warm, and tends 

 to fatten it. Milk, oil-cake or linseed-meal, and wheat 

 middlings form blood, muscle, nerve, bone, hair, etc., 

 and tend to develop milk qualities. All changes in 

 feed for calves should be slow and gradual. Sudden 

 changes in feed are likely to result unfavorably. In 

 feeding grain, put the grain feed into the milk. Do 

 not pour the milk on the feed. 



