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years' profitable work. An animal that will 

 make Mm from 300 to 450 pounds of butter an- 

 nually and show a profit of $25 to $60 per year 

 after paying for feed and labor is worth having. 

 Do not say this cannot be done for it is being 

 done. 



Calves Better to Feed than Pigs. — ^The calf 

 probably will not make as much growth from 

 the same food as the pig, but when one must 

 choose between a pig to sell or a heifer calf to 

 raise for the dairy, feed the skim-milk to the 

 calf by all means. 



Methods of Feeding Calves. — The calf should 

 be allowed to take the first milk from its dam as 

 nature requires this and if her rules are violated 

 there will surely be trouble. After the calf has 

 once nursed, it should be removed from its 

 mother but fed its mother's milk for a few days, 

 d^ending on the vigor of the calf. Commence 

 to add skim-milk after a week or ten days, ad- 

 ding a small amount at first and increasing it 

 daily until the calf is on an entire skim-milk 

 diet. 



There are a few simple rules to follow in 

 growing calves on skim-milk. The milk must be 

 sweet; it must be as warm as the mother's milk 

 and care must be exercised not to feed too much 

 of it. There are many more calves injured by 

 being fed too much skim-milk than there are by 

 • not having enough of it. Four quarts at a feed 



