PART VI. FEEDING ANIMALS 



Calves and Separated Milk. 



Is there any danger in feeding separated milk to calves? I have 

 fed mine separated milk with meal, sometimes linseed, and sometimes 

 calf meal, and they have had well cured alfalfa also. Four have died 

 suddenly from a violent bloat that even sticking could not relieve. 



This is not due to separated milk, but is more likely to have been 

 caused by unclean milk vessels, which had fermentable material. 

 Cleanse the vessels after use, in one-half per cent solution formalin, 

 and use vessels without corners or crevices. 



Calves Without Milk. 



Can I buy calves and raise them without milk? Would canned 

 milk do? 



It would not be profitable to use canned milk. There are a 

 number of calf meals on the market which are used as a substitute 

 for milk; but, according to Professor Woll, the conclusions drawn 

 from a number of experiments with a number of these feeds were 

 that while good, strong, healthy calves could be raised with them, it 

 is much cheaper for the dairyman to mix his own meal. He advises 

 the use of the following mixture: 20 parts each of ground oats and 

 wheat middlings; 10 parts of corn meal; and 5 parts of linseed meal 

 or ground flaxseed. He also states that if skim milk is not at hand, a 

 good substitute is third grade dry skim milk powder. This is what 

 is commonly known as dry milk and may be purchased at any store 

 handling a full line of feeds. 



Old process oil meal and wheat middlings mixed half and half by 

 weight made into a gruel with one pint of the mixture per gallon of 

 warm water is recommended by an old dairyman. 



Better Sell the Calf. 



/ have a two-wceks-old bull calf, for which I am offered $5. / have 

 no pasture, but will have more oat hay than I need for horses. Will it 

 pay to raise calf to sell for beef? Can I do so on oat hay alone, or 

 would it pay to buy alfalfa hay at $12 per ton, or had I better sell 

 the calf now, also the hay? 



*A11 answers signed "F. W. W." are by F. W. Woll, Professor of Animal 

 Nutrition, University Farm, Davis, and author of "Productive Feeding of Farm 

 Animals" a treatise on modern science and practice of profitable feeding: Postpaid 

 $1.50 from Pacific Rural Press, San Francisco. 



