240 FARMING ON FACTORY LINES 



The actual method followed by the writer in feeding 

 weaned calves is to turn them out wherever possible 

 on a plot of rape, say, from September to the end of 

 November. Whilst on the rape, as a corrective, they 

 receive about 1 lb. per head per day of palm nut or 

 cocoanut cake, or better, 1| lbs. crushed oats, and 

 have a little clover or vetch hay placed in a rack, 

 which they can eat as they desire. 



Later, they are put into a movable shed, in which 

 the dry fodder is fed on a more liberal scale, and the 

 cake or oats increased to 2 lbs. per day. For succulent 

 food, they are allowed on all, except very wet or 

 frosty days, to graze a piece of winter greens an hour 

 or so every day. During unsuitable weather, when 

 out-grazing is not possible, the youngsters receive, in 

 the shed, an allowance of from 2 to 3 st. of roots or 

 1J to 2 st. of vetch silage. Fed this way, the calves are 

 very healthy. Hoose, the bane of the calf rearer, need 

 not be feared, since the pest causing this disease is 

 not to be found on the winter green crop. 



Further, being hardier than in-fed, "coddled" 

 animate, they are better able to withstand other ail- 

 ments. The greater advantage of out, as compared 

 with in-feeding, is most marked in the following sum- 

 mer, whilst the way calves thrive when grazing rape 

 pasture, cannot fail to strike the least observant. 



In the leaflet mentioned above a standard fattening 

 ration for young cattle from 18 to 24 months, is as 

 follows: — 



Ration C» 



| et. meadow hay 



\ st. oat Btraw 



4 st. swedes 



2 lbs. ground nuts 



2 lbs. linseed cake 



2 lbs. undecorticated cake > 



containing 1-48 lbs. digest- 

 ible protine with a starch 

 value of 11-4 lbs. 



