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"For the first 100 pounds of live weight ten pounds 

 of skimmed milk each day. 



"For the second 100 pounds of live weight, five 

 pounds of skimmed milk per day. 



"For the third 100 pounds of live weight two and 

 one-half pounds of skimmed milk per day. 



"You should use your own discretion as to how 

 long to feed whole milk, but do not continue it longer 

 than necessary. Change the calf to skimmed milk 

 very gradually. A wise plan is to first substitute one 

 pint of skimmed milk for one pint of whole milk and 

 gradually decrease the whole milk and increase the 

 skimmed milk until the calf is getting all skimmed 

 milk. Be sure that the skimmed milk is always sweet 

 and always clean and always at body heat/' 



We again quote from Bulletin No. 192: 



"A calf weighing eighty pounds would be fed ac- 

 cording to this plan eight and one-half pounds one 

 gallon of skimmed milk per day ; a calf weighing 300 

 pounds will be getting a little over seventeen pounds 

 two gallons per day. If skimmed milk is available it 

 can be fed profitably to the dairy calf six to eight 

 months or even a year." 



When you change the calves to skimmed milk they 

 must be given some substitute for butterfat. Ground 

 flaxseed made into a jelly and fed with the milk is 

 soothing and makes an excellent substitute for the 

 butterfat until the calf is three or four weeks old. At 

 that time it should be able to eat ordinary farm grains. 

 Corn and oats then given in sufficient quantities will 

 prove an excellent substitute for butterfat. Again 

 we have found that calves will quite frequently learn 

 to eat the grain more readily if a little bran is intro- 



