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made beyond the so-called dairy belt ; that good grass will 

 make good milk, and, when well manufactured, good butter 

 and cheese, West as well as East. Dairy products have be- 

 come too valuable to permit calves intended for the dairy 

 or for beef to be raised upon whole milk ; they must be 

 grown upon the refuse of the dairy either skim-milk or 

 whey with other and cheaper food to be added. 



SKIM-MILK RATION FOB CALF. 



The dairyman may feed whole milk a single week, and 

 then substitute skim-milk, with a little flax-seed jelly 

 mixed in as above described ; or, if flax-seed is difficult to 

 procure, add two tablespoonfuls of oil-meal per day, dis- 

 solved in hot water. This oil-meal may be doubled in a 

 week, gradually increasing to one pound per day ; but this 

 will be sufficient up to sixty days old. When the calf is 

 sixty days old, add one pound of oats or oatmeal or wheat 

 middlings. Continue this for sixty days. Twenty pounds 

 of skim-milk per day will be sufficient for the first ninety 

 days, but no injury will occur from a larger ration as the 

 calf grows older. For the next ninety days, if milk is 

 short, feed only ten pounds of skim-milk, and increase the 

 oats or middlings to two pounds per day. We have ad- 

 vised the linseed oil-meal because it is excellent for the 

 health of the calf, and, as we saw by the analysis, has ten 

 per cent, of oil and a large percentage of muscle-forming 

 food, and phosphate of lime to build the bones and extend 

 the frame. It has most excellent qualities as a food for 

 raising calves, and can always be had for this purpose at 

 from one and a half to two cents per pound generally at 

 the former figure in the West, and the latter in the 

 East. New process linseed-meal is now gradually taking 

 the place of the old style oil-meal, the difference being that 

 the oil is reduced to two and a half per cent.; but oil- 

 meal may be dispensed with, and oat-meal or middlings 



