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or four weeks in the boxstalls so that they can 

 suckle whenever they wish. But I would turn the 

 cow out in the morning, and put her back in the 

 stall at noon and feed her after the calf had nursed. 

 Then I would turn her out again until evening, when 

 I would put her back in the stall for the night with 

 her calf. After the calf is four weeks old separate 

 cow and calf, suckling the calf twice a day. Place 

 shelled corn and oats in a trough where the calf can 

 go and eat at will. You will be surprised how quick 

 it will begin to eat. 



"When grass came I turned cows and calves out 

 together on pasture and let them run until flies got 

 bad, and then took the calves up and fed as before, 

 bringing the cows in mornings and evenings and let- 

 ting the calves suck. I separated my bulls from 

 the heifers, and fed the bulls all they would eat 

 of ground corn and oats, equal parts, with a little 

 oilmeal. 



"I would not breed heifers until eighteen to 

 twenty months old, so as to have them near three 

 years old when dropping their first calves. I would 

 breed them so as to have their first calves in the 

 spring if possible, in order to get them quickly on 

 grass, which will make them give more milk for the 

 calves. ' ' 



John Letham's Experience. It is now near 

 thirty years since the author first formed the ac- 

 quaintance of a feeder contending for honors at the 

 old Fat Stocks Shows in the Chicago Exposition 

 Building on the Lake Front who impressed him as 

 a man of exceptional capacity. During all these 

 years this acquaintance has been continued, and 

 with ever-increasing respect on our part for his 

 judgment in all that pertains to sound methods of 



