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RATION RECEIVED BY LOT II. The age at which the calves in 

 Lot II began to consume the various kinds of feed and the amounts 

 consumed by them is a correct guide as to the degree of their develop- 

 ment. The calves .remained with the cows for 4.8 days and consumed, 

 during the remainder of the first week, 10.27 pounds of whole milk 

 per day. The amount was decreased to 8.96 pounds of whole milk 

 during the second week, although they consumed 10.89 pounds of 

 liquid, there being 1.67 pounds of water and .26 pound of calf-meal 

 substituted for a portion of the milk. The third week, the whole milk 

 ration was further reduced, although amounting to 6.2 pounds, and 

 the daily liquid ration was increased to 11.54 pounds. During the 

 fourth week, the whole milk ration was reduced to 4.53 

 pounds per day and fed together with 5.81 pounds of water and .94 

 pound of calf meal. The .liquid ration during the fifth week con- 

 sisted of 3.51 pounds of whole milk, 6.99 pounds of water and 1.16 

 pounds of calf meal. The sixth week, but 1.66 pounds of whole 

 milk, 7.98 pounds of water and 1.36 pounds of calf meal, totaling 11 

 pounds of liquid, were fed. Whole milk feeding was discontinued 

 after the eleventh week and but one-tenth of a pound was fed during 

 the tenth and eleventh weeks. The total liquid ration fed during 

 the twelfth week was 11.67 pounds. This amount was gradually 

 reduced to 11.2 pounds, which was the amount fed during the seven- 

 teenth week. After this period, the amount was gradually increased 

 to 11.99 pounds, the amount received during the twenty-sixth week. 



The dairymen who use a calf meal ration in the raising of 

 calves, usually have only whole milk available for the feeding of 

 young stock, and as a result, desire to reduce the amount of this 

 material used for feeding purposes, to the minimum. The milk 

 portion of the ration received by the calves in Lot II averaged 1.17 

 pounds per head for the period of one hundred eighty-two days, 

 equivalent to 212.94 pounds or 25 gallons, for the experimental 

 period. The variation in daily amounts consumed by various indi- 

 vidual calves ranged from 1.88 pounds to .9 pound. The calf that 

 required the maximum amount of whole milk consumed 342.2 

 pounds, 60.7 per cent, more milk than that required by the average 

 calf in the lot. The calf that received .9 pound of whole milk per 

 day, obtained 49.14 pounds less whole milk than the average indi- 

 vidual in the lot. Five of the ten calves required less than one pound 

 of whole milk per day and two calves required but .9 pound. The 

 two calves that consumed the minimum amount of whole milk 

 weighed above the average for the lot at birth. The final weight 

 of the calves that received a large amount of whole milk was not in 

 proportion to the amount of milk consumed. 



The amount of water consumed per day when fed in connection 

 with the calf meal averaged 8.64 pounds. The variation between 

 individual calves in this particular was very slight, the maximum dif- 

 ference being 1.8 pounds and less than one pound in comparison with 



