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MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



Bulletin No. 223 March, 1925 



MILK SUBSTITUTES IN THE REARING 

 OF YOUNG CALVES 



By J. B. LiNDSEY AXD J. G. Archibald 



Dairy farms located adjacent to their market, as are most of those in Massa- 

 chusetts, usually find it more profitable to sell fluid milk than to sell cream 

 and use the skim milk in growing young stock. The relatively high price 

 of fluid milk has been an incentive to better the grade of stock kept on our 

 dairy farms, while the same cause has made it unprofitable to rear calves from 

 this high grade stock. Unless a substitute for milk, to be used in rearing 

 calves, can be found, one of the great advantages of high grade producing 

 stock on our dairy farms cannot be realized. It was to meet this need that 

 the work here reported was initiated. The bulletin presents the report of seven 

 different feeding trials with forty-five different animals. 



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