MANAGEMENT OF YOUNG DAIRY STOCK. 



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the seven months under experiment, the skim milk calves gained 440 pounds 

 per head, the whole milk calves 405 pounds per head, and the calves nursed 

 by the cows, 422 pounds per head. 



This experiment shows that the feed cost of raising a good skim milk 

 calf need not exceed $5.25 in contrast to $15.75 for a whole milk calf and $8 

 for one nursed by the dam. The skim milk calf becomes accustomed to 

 eating both grain and roughness early in life, is handled enough to be gentle, 

 and when transferred to a feed lot is ready to make rapid and economical 

 gains. 



DRIED BLOOD AS A TONIC FOR YOUNG CALVES: For over two years the 



YPSEY AS A YEARLING. 

 (After Taking Dried Blood.) 



Kansas Experiment Station has used dried blood in connection with its 

 experiments in feeding calves. In March, 1899, one of our cows gave birth 

 to a calf weighing 86 pounds. This calf was allowed to suck for several 

 weeks, to assist in reducing the inflammation in the dam's udder. On ac- 

 count of poor quality and quantity of milk, the calf did very poorly, and 

 to save its life it became necessary to remove it from the dam. With the 

 ordinary treatment accorded our calves he grew worse and worse, and when 

 79 days old weighed only ninety pounds, or four pounds heavier than at 

 birth. Although no one would have given ten cents for the calf at this 

 time, an effort was made to bring him out. He was given castor oil, laudanum, 



