90 THE FARM DAIRY. 



twice per day is sufficient for the average-sized 

 calf for the first montli. Add a spoonful of 

 ground flax seed to each feed and teach the calf 

 to eat a little corn-meal as soon as possible. Com 

 is the most economical food to balance a ration 

 containing so much skim-milk. Feed shelled 

 com as soon as the young calf will digest it well. 



Never feed a young calf cold milk ; better take 

 an ax and knock it on the head. CSalves must 

 be watched and when they show a tendency to 

 looseness of the bowels, feed less milk and if 

 this does not remedy the trouble, heat some 

 skim-mUk to boiling and when it is cooled to a 

 proper tem.perature, feed this to the calf. If 

 taken in time this will check the scours caused 

 by over-feeding. 



Calves must have a warm dry nest and it re- 

 quires much bedding to keep them dry. This 

 causes the calf to thrive and it saves the liquid 

 manure. I prefer fall calves to raise as they can 

 be taken care of the first winter and when they 

 go to grass in the spring they will be able to 

 take care of themselves, if they have good pas-, 

 ture. 



Experimental Work in. Calf Feeding. — The 

 Indiana Experiment Station in Bulletin No. 47 

 gives a record of work to show the relative cost 

 of calves grown on skim-milk and on whole 

 milk. The skim-milk calves cost less than 4 

 cents per pound and the whole milk calves cost 



