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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



C. Raising Dairy Calves without Milk. 



.T. B. LINDSEY. 



With plenty of skim milk available, the rearing of calves 

 intended for the dairy is a comparatively simple matter. 

 There is, however, a constantly increasing demand in Mas- 

 sachusetts for whole milk, and the amount available for but- 

 ter production is likely to diminish from year to year. With 

 little or no skim milk at his disposal, the dairyman desirous 

 of irrowing; his own younji; stock is in need of a milk sub- 

 stitute to feed the calf during the first four to six months 

 of its life. The brief experiment here reported was made 

 to test the efficacy, for such a purpose, of Hayward's and 

 Blatchford's calf meals. 



(1) Hayward's Calf Meal. 



Hayward of the Pennsylvania experiment station studied 

 the question of providing a cheap and suitable milk substi- 

 tute, and published his results in Bulletin No. 60 of that 

 station. He succeeded in rearing ten unselected grade 

 Guernsey calves without the aid of milk after the first four- 

 teen to eighteen days. Most of the calves weighed from 150 

 to 250 pounds when from four to five months old, and were 

 produced at a food cost of from |8 to $9 each. He concluded 

 that the calf meal was a fairly satisfactory milk substitute, 

 if used judiciously by careful feeders, but that it was not 

 equal to whole milk. 



The formula proposed by Hayward for the meal was as 

 follows : — 



Wheat hour, . 

 Cocoaniit meal, 

 Nutrium, 

 Linseed meal, 

 Dried l)lood, . 



Poiinda. 

 30 

 25 

 20 

 10 

 2 



