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follow the exact plan here proposed in order to utilize the 

 whey. If oil-meal or oil-cake cannot easily be obtained, 

 wheat bran, oat-meal, barley-meal, or oats and peas ground 

 together, may be substituted ; a small portion of corn-meal 

 may be mixed ; but it is not proper to be fed alone with 

 whey, as corn has too large a proportion of starch and too 

 small -a proportion of muscle-forming elements to make up 

 for the deficiencies in the whey. Another important point 

 is, that the whey should not be allowed to get very sour 

 before feeding, but should be fed as nearly sweet as possible. 



The new process linseed-meal also makes a good addition 

 to whey for feeding calves. This has only one-fourth as 

 much oil as the old style, but the per cent, of albuminous 

 matter is larger. A better ration to feed the young calf 

 than the one first above given, would be one-fourth pound 

 of linseed-meal and one-fourth pound of flax-seed, boiled 

 together and added to two gallons of whey. This would re- 

 place more of the oil and cost but slightly more. Whey is not 

 so badly balanced as a food for young animals of some age 

 as is generally supposed, but it contains too much water in 

 proportion to its dry matter 93 per cent, water to 7 per 

 cent, dry substance. And, for this reason, there is a large 

 benefit in mixing other food with it to reduce the propor- 

 tion of water. After the calves reach an age of 60 to 90 

 days, wheat middlings may be mixed with the whey alone, 

 at the rate of one-half pound to the gallon. The food then 

 will be 87 per cent, water to 13 per cent, dry substance, 

 comparing favorably with milk, beets, mangel, and some of 

 the more watery green foods, such as green rape, beans in 

 blossom, cabbage, carrot- tops, etc. To this, requiring the 

 calf to take so much water for so little food, is, no doubt, 

 due much of the injurious effects of feeding whey alone, 

 and, as we have seen, it is easy to obviate this by mixing 

 dry food with it. 



Large experiments have been conducted by Mr. I. H. 



