CALVES FROM BIRTH UNTIL ONE YEAR OLD II 



them in a condition of flesh too low rather than too 

 high is in actual practice the more common of the two 

 by far. Animals of this type, when grown for beef only, 

 may with equal propriety be kept in as high a condition 

 of flesh as animals of the distinctively beef types grown 

 for the same ends. 



In growing calves of the dairy types for breeding, 

 the aim should be to grow them in moderate but not in 

 low flesh. This can only be done by rearing them on 

 a skim-milk diet with suitable adjuncts. To rear them 

 on their dams would be adverse to the development of 

 the milking quality, and it would be prejudicial to the 

 same in the dams that suckled them. 



What has been said about the rearing of calves for 

 breeding of the dual and dairy types will apply equally 

 to rearing them for milk production. They ought, of 

 course, to be fed on a protein diet. It would be a mis- 

 take to keep them on a diet so lacking in nutrition that 

 a reasonable maximum of development in frame and 

 muscle would not be attained. Nor is it necessary to 

 feed food that is bulky to the extent of creating disten- 

 sion of paunch in the young animals that would detract 

 from their symmetry of form. This has in some cases 

 been advocated with the view to increase the depth and 

 capacity of the body. With correct feeding, such dis- 

 tension will come gradually and increasingly as it is 

 needed. 



Whether calves are reared for feeding, breeding, or 

 milk production, the economy of keeping them pushing 

 well ahead from the day of birth, whatever the use may 

 be that they are to serve, should not be overlooked. 

 Reasonably quick growth is not so important in the 

 milk-producing as in the meat-producing animal, but it 

 is important notwithstanding that it is growth which 

 differs in kind from the other. The most rapid growth 

 attainable should not always be sought, as to secure it 



