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for the purchase of a high-priced nitrogenous product to be used in supple- 

 menting the skim milk ration." 



Flaxseed meal is recommended by dairy writers as a suitable feed to 

 take the place of the butterfat removed from the milk. Blachford's calf 

 meal is advertised and sold for the same purpose. The Kansas Experiment 

 Station fed four calves on flaxseed meal. The meal was placed in a pail 

 and enough boiling water poured over it to make a jelly, which was fed 

 with the skim milk at feeding time. At first each calf received a tablespoon- 

 ful of flaxseed at each meal; this allowance was gradually increased to one- 

 half pound per head per day by the time the calves were three to four 

 months old. Four calves were fed Blachford's calf meal. The latter was 

 mixed with warm water according to directions to form a gruel. This 

 gruel was mixed with the skim milk and the same amount fed as with the 

 flaxseed meal. Both lots received all the mixed hay and Kafir-corn meal 

 they would eat. A third lot of five calves received skim milk, Kafir-corn 

 meal and mixed hay. The calves receiving the Blachford's calf meal gained 

 1.9 pounds daily per head, the flaxseed lot 1.55 pounds daily per head, and 

 the lot with nothing mixed with their skim milk 1.82 pounds daily per head. 

 Both the flaxseed meal and the Blachford's calf meal are very expensive, 

 and unless better gains than the above are secured their use is not only ex- 

 pensive but of practically no value. 



SHELLED CORN COMPARED WITH CORN CHOP FOR YOUNG CALVES: In 

 the fall of 1900, the Kansas Experiment Station purchased twenty head of 

 young calves, composed mostly of Shorthorn and Hereford grades. On 

 November 28, these calves were divided into two lots as nearly equal as 

 possible, the average weight being 127 pounds. Both lots were fed and 

 treated alike, with the exception that one received its grain as shelled corn 

 and the other as corn chop. All the calves were fed mixed hay (red clover, 

 orchard grass and English blue grass) for the first nine weeks, prairie hay 

 for the next four weeks and a mixture of prairie and alfalfa for the last six 

 weeks. Each lot was given all the milk, grain and hay the calves would eat 

 without scouring. Salt was accessible at all times. For nine days previous 

 to the division into lots the grain for all the calves consisted of a mixture of 

 shelled corn and corn chop. It was noticed that the calves would begin to eat 

 the shelled corn when three to four weeks old, and in a few cases when two to 

 three weeks old. At the commencement of the experiment each lot was 

 consuming ten pounds of grain daily. As the experiment advanced it 

 was found that the corn chop calves could not eat as much grain as the 

 shelled corn calves without causing considerable trouble from scours. This 

 accounts for the difference of 325 pounds in the grain consumed by the 

 two lots. 



SHELLED CORN LOT: For nineteen weeks under experiment these 

 ten calves consumed 18,561 pounds of skim milk, 2,611 pounds of shelled 

 corn, and 7,088 pounds of hay. The total gain during the experiment was 

 2,322 pounds, or 1.74 pounds daily per head. Valuing skim milk at fifteen 



