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MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 164. 



of Ij pounds of moist calf meal daily and 1^ pounds of dry meal daily 

 for the last month. She was a vigorous calf and was not troubled mth 

 scours. 



Lindsey's Calf Meal VI. 



Ingredients: — 

 35 pounds ground oat flakes. 

 12J pounds barley malt. 

 I5 pounds blood flour. 



5 pound bicarbonate of potash. 



5 pound salt. 



Cost, 3.3 cents a pound. 



The malt is intended as a food and also to act upon the starch in the 

 oats and convert it partly to maltose, in which form the oats are more 

 easily digested. This combination is made after the formula of Liebig/ 

 only oat meal is substituted for wheat meal. Our method of preparation 

 was as follows: The malt was kept separate from the other ingredients. 

 Three ounces of the oat meal-blood-potash mixture were converted into 

 a paste with cold water, and then sufficient water added to make 1 quart, 

 and enough prepared at one time for each twenty-four hours. This mix- 

 ture was cooked or heated very warm for fifteen minutes and then 

 cooled to 100° to 120° F. One ounce of ground malt was then added for 

 each quart of the first mixture, and the latter allowed to stand for one-half 

 hour. It was heated again to near boiling, then cooled and fed milk- 

 warm. The basal ration of skim milk was added just before feeding. 

 The reason for heating to near boiling or to boiling before adding the 

 malt is to gelatinize the starch, which enables the malt to act on it more 

 thoroughly. 



Results. 



All three were thriftj- grade Holsteins. Samantha III. received 4 

 quarts of skim milk daily and as liigh as 1^ pounds of calf meal as gruel, 

 and 1 pound of dry meal daily. Samantha IV. received 5, 4 and 3 quarts 

 daily of skim milk as the trial progressed. During the latter part of the 



> Kellner's Emahrung, etc., sixth edition, p. 283. 



