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fed daily throughout the trial, lasting 140 days. The gruel was prepared 

 in the usual way by adding a little cold water to the dry meal and then 

 approximately 1 quart of boiling water for each 3| ounces of meal. The 

 mixture was allowed to stand until cool, and was always warmed to 90° 

 to 100° F. before feeding. In addition to the calf meal fed as a gruel, 

 after the first tliree months the dry meal and rowen were placed before 

 the animals and they soon began to eat these readily. At the end of the 

 140 days the calves were eating daily 4 quarts of skim milk, 18 to 21 

 ounces of calf meal as gruel, 8 ounces of dry calf meal and 5 pounds of 

 rowen. 



Results. 



' Thirty-six pounds of another calf meal. 



The calves did very well on this diet and were in good condition at the 

 end of the trial. It would have been more satisfactory, from an experi- 

 mental standpoint, if they had been given rather more of the calf meal 

 and less of the milk; they appeared, however, to be taking all of the 

 meal that they could care for and keep in good condition. 



VI. Calf Meals prepared at this Station. 



This station has compounded a number of calf meals and fed them to 

 calves. The object was to use feedstuffs that were available in the ordi- 

 nary markets at reasonable prices, and that were free from an excess of 

 fiber and easily digested. 



Lindsey's Calf Meal I. 



Ingredients: — 

 10 pounds fine corn meal. 

 10 pounds flour middlings. 

 15 pounds flaxseed meal. 

 10 pounds cheap flour. 

 5 pounds' glucose sugar. 

 1 pound salt. 



Cost, 3.2 cents a pound. 



The corn meal, flour middlings and cheap flour were easily obtainable. 

 The flaxseed meal, procured of linseed oil manufacturers, was used be- 

 cause of the favorable effect of its protein and of its large percentage of 



