CHAPTER XVI. 



A Plan that will Add $13 to $24 to Your 

 Profits from Each Cow Each Year 



THE milk that your cows yield should put two 

 different and distinct profits into your pocket. 

 One is the profit that you will obtain from 

 the butter made in your Minnetonna Home Creamery. 

 The other is derived from feeding the skim milk to the 

 calves, and the buttermilk to the pigs. 



You lose money if you let your calves have the whole 

 milk. For by doing so you cheat yourself out of the 

 butterfat. That butterfat does nothing other than 

 make the calves warmer and fatter. It does not make 

 them grow. 



You can use cornmeal, oil meal or flaxseed meal and 

 either one of the three will furnish the calves with 

 heat and fat just as well as the butterfat, and either 

 will cost you but little more than one cent per pound. 



Why should you feed the calves whole milk con- 

 taining thirty-cent butterfat when your neighbors are 

 raising just as good calves on skim milk and one- 

 cent meal? 



Skim milk possesses all the food elements necessary 

 to make bone, blood, muscle, nerves, hair, skin, teeth, 

 hoofs and horns. All that skim milk lacks is fat, and 

 a calf raised on skim milk plus meal gets the neces- 

 sary heat and fat-making elements from the meal. 



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