80 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



C. Raising Dairy Calves without Milk. 



J. B. LINDSEY, 



With plenty of skim milk available, the rearing of calves 

 intended for the dairy is a comparatively simple matter. 

 There is, however, a constantly increasing demand in Mas- 

 sachusetts for whole milk, and the amount available for but- 

 ter production is likely to diminish from year to year. With 

 little or no skim milk at his disposal, the dairyman desirous 

 of growing his own young stock is in need of a milk sub- 

 stitute to feed the calf during the first four to six months 

 of its life. The brief experiment here reported was made 

 to test the efficacy, for such a purpose, of Hayward's and 

 Blatchford's calf meals. 



(1) Hayward's Calf Meal. 



Hayward of the Pennsylvania experiment station studied 

 the question of providing a cheap and suitable milk substi- 

 tute, and published his results in Bulletin No. 60 of that 

 station. He succeeded in rearing ten unselected grade 

 Guernsey calves without the aid of milk after the first four- 

 teen to eighteen days. Most of the calves weighed from 150 

 to 250 pounds when from four to five months old, and were 

 produced at a food cost of from $8 to $9 each. He concluded 

 that the calf meal was a fairly satisfactory milk substitute, 

 if used judiciously by careful feeders, but that it was not 

 equal to whole milk. 



The formula proposed by Hayward for the meal was as 

 follows : — 



Pounds. 

 Wheat flour, ......... 30 



Cocoanut meal, ........ 25 



Nutrium, ......... 20 



Linseed meal, ........ 10 



Dried blood, ......... 2 



