ON THE CALF. 



Nature prepared the colostrum as a laxative and if the cow has been 

 on dry <iood, such as in tim^s of drought, the calf most certainly 

 requires it. 



From the time milk ceases to be the main food of the calf until the 

 heifer drops her first calf (at which time, if ever, regardless of age, 

 she becomes a cow) the deeding of the animal should be with a view 

 to nourishment and growth, without the accumulation of too much 

 flesh. When pasturage is good, after the calf is six months old, there 

 can be no better food; i>t when the grass is short or dry and growth 

 slackens, the pasture should be supplemented with hay. At all times 

 let the food be mainly of the coarser and more bulky kind, as the 

 digestive apparatus needs to be developed and become accustomed to 

 working up large quantities of food. A big belly may result, but no 

 matter. 



We have abundant evidence to prove the often repeated statement 

 found herein: When bull calves have bem properly bred and fed on 

 the coastal lands of this State until 6, 9, or 12 months old and then 

 removed to the tableland, where the soil is charged with lime, and 

 climatic conditions are severe, irosts and snowstorms prevailing, on 

 being returned to the coast lands two or three years later, tnougn 

 small in stature and unprepossessing in appearance, they have become 

 the best types as sires. 



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