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oxen. He slaughtered the one originally the heaviest, at 

 eight and one-half months old, and it dressed 522 pounds. 

 Its live weight is not known, but must have been at least 

 800 pounds its girth was five feet two inches. His mate 

 was much better to appearance, and it was determined to 

 keep it, on experiment, till a year old. This calf was fed, 

 during the last three months, on skim-milk, shorts and 

 hay. At the end of the year its girth was six feet five 

 inches, and the calf so fat as to cover his hips from sight. 

 He was purchased by a butcher, at ten cents per pound 

 dressed weight. His live weight was 1,200 pounds, and his 

 dressed weight 902 pounds, meat 748 pounds, hide and 

 tallow 154 pounds. Price paid $90.20. 



This last calf weighed, at twenty-eight days old, 160 

 pounds. It gained in 337 days, or the balance of its first 

 year, 1,040 pounds, an average of 3.08 pounds per day, 

 which is, so far as we know, the largest gain on record, for 

 so long a period, whatever the food. 



Here are two cases of two calves, each making an 

 unusual weight, especially the last one, without any new 

 milk. It is doubtful if any case can be found of greater 

 weight than 1,200 pounds, at one year, fed upon new milk 

 in any quantity. In fact the cases are so numerous of great 

 growth upon skim-milk, that it cannot longer be claimed 

 that whole milk is necessary to raise even the best calves. 

 It is thus evident that the dairyman may raise his calves 

 for beef or for the dairy without interfering with his 

 profits in butter. And the expert butter-maker can realize 

 more money from the cream than the whole milk will bring 

 in cheese, and, besides, raise fine calves upon the skim-milk. 

 We have raised many fine calves upon half the skim-milk 

 of the dam, supplemented with other food ; but it is quite 

 an easy matter for a skillful feeder to raise one calf to each 

 cow devoted to butter making, with the aid of a small 

 amount of grain. 



