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calf go above 2 Ibs. of grain daily, which is the very limit. Too heavy 

 fattening feed will tend to change the type entirely; and instead of a 

 dairy beauty, you'll have a young beef to fit for market. 



A CONKEY CALF To make a sturdy calf, add to the ration a scant 

 dose of Conkey's Stock Tonic. Just a little will be 



enough, say twice daily a half-tablespoonful to three or four youngsters. 

 The Stock Tonic will destroy worms; and as a tonic and appetizer will 

 insure full body development from the food taken into the young animal's 

 stomach. This is a time when you want to watch for every possible gain. 

 A young calf will make better gains for grain than an older calf, and should 

 have all it will eat. 



The uniformly fine and safe results from the moderate use of the Stock 

 Tonic with young animals, calves, lambs, etc., is a positive test of its 

 freedom from dangerous drugs, and guarantees its safety for more or 

 less continuous periods as a conditioner for any animal. 



BABY BEEF It takes two to make good baby beef a feeder who is 

 a specialist at it, and a good specimen of a beef breed. 

 Both feeder and calf must do their part. Buyers show a strong liking 

 for choice light yearling stock, that 

 is, "baby beef," as against heavy- 

 weight but long fed steers; and 

 after all your trouble with the lat- 

 ter, getting them choice and 

 smoothly finished, the price is apt 

 to be lower than it should be; while 

 "baby beef" is a specialty worth 

 any man's attention. 



GREGORY'S Gregory's experi- 

 CALF ment at Iowa Col- 



lege developed an 

 800 Ib. calf in one year, treating as 

 follows: After the first suckling, the 

 calf was taken from the cow, but 

 for two weeks received the cow's 

 milk whole, then changed to skim 

 milk gradually. For first month 

 about 4 quarts were allowed to a 

 feed, then raised to 6 quarts. 

 Ground corn and oats, or bran and 

 ground corn, were allowed soon as 

 the calf could eat grain. During 

 an attack of scours blood flour (Iteaspoonful) was allowed with the milk; 

 blood flour was recommended for unthrifty calves. For roughage this calf 

 had clover or alfalfa. 



Making good "Baby Beef" 



KENNEDY'S CALF Everybody has heard of Prof. Kennedy's calf, 

 Shamrock II, Grand Champion steer of the 1910 



International. An Aberdeen Angus, calved January 10, 1910, according 

 to the record, he was taken to Iowa State Agricultural College May 1. 

 At that time he weighed 346 Ibs. He was put on a nurse cow, and allowed 

 the run of a grass lot at night, keeping to the barn during the day. Up' 

 to September 1 he was fed good clover hay, all he would eat (the state 



