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but like my present method much the best. I consider it safer and less trouble. 

 Possibly, if I were trying to force growth for baby beef, might try the other 

 method again. I have tried feeding three times a day but did not see much of 

 any better results than from feeding twice. My chief difficulty comes from 

 not having at all times of the year sweet skim milk, my choice being limited 

 to whole milk or sour milk. At these times I continue the whole milk a week 

 or two longer, according to the vigor of the calf and change at once to sour 

 milk. After the calf has commenced to eat readily of dry bran and hay I 

 consider the critical point has been passed. In case of scouring give an ounce 

 of castor oil, then put on scant rations, feeding perhaps four times a day one 

 or two pounds at a time. A little lime water in water is good. If the case is 

 serious, and the calf valuable, in the absence of a competent veterinary, see 

 your family physician and ask what he would do in a similar case amongst 

 human infants. Within the last four months I have seen very successful dairy- 



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Butter record, 22 Ibs. 1 oz. in one week; 80 Ibs. 11 1-4 oz. in thirty days; 26 Ibs. 8 1-2 oz. butter in 

 eu seven days at nine years of age. 



men who have adopted the system of dry feeding of grain to young calves 

 instead of making gruel and all are pleased with the change. I have had one 

 experience with calf cholera or white scours. I brought a two-year-old heifer 

 from the pasture one day in September with an apparently healthy calf. The 

 next morning the calf could not stand and by noon it was dead. The stable 

 was thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with a solution of bichloride of mer- 

 cury. Another cow and calf were placed in it (or if I remember correctly 

 the second calf was dropped in this stable) and the calf went the same road, 

 only he was a little longer in going. From that time on every calf I had for 

 about six months had a more or less severe attack. Those that got a good start 

 of two or three weeks I saved. Those that were attacked at a day or two old 

 died. The disease left as suddenly as it came and I have not had a case for 

 over a year. The leading symptoms as I observed them were extreme and 

 sudden prostration, white watery discharge from the bowels, extremely offen- 

 sive odor and sinking in of the eyes, the eyes turning dark, and often, if the 

 calf lives long enough, total blindness. In my judgment the best course for a 



