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Should the grazing l:>ecome either scant or overdr_v, 

 additional food must be furnished in some form, either 

 in the form of supplemental grazing (see page 37), of 

 soiling food, or of field roots. As soiling food, nothing 

 is superior to corn grown so thickly that the stalks are 

 fine. Ensilage is good, but may not be attainable at 

 such a season. Fall turnips grown so thickly in the 

 row as not to be large, pulled and strewn daily in the 

 paddocks, are excellent. No cessation in growth should 

 be allowed. 



The first summer such calves should, if possible, 

 have access to a stable or other inclosure when the 

 weather is hot, and especially in time of flies. During 

 the fly season the open windows should be covered with 

 coarse sacking to darken the place, and at the same 

 time to make ventilation. No cooler place can be found 

 at that season than a basement furnishes. They should 

 also have access to a pasture. Where this cannot be 

 furnished a paddock is, in a sense, a necessit3^ In this 

 they will lie at night. There is no doubt that quite 

 as much of growth can be obtained from calves that 

 have only a paddock in which to go the first summer 

 as from those that have access to pasture, but the cost 

 of caring for them is considerably more. 



When calves come in the spring, they are weaned 

 at a season when the pastures have lost or are losing 

 their succulence. This may possibly be supplied for a 

 time by a rape or some other late pasture. It may also 

 be furnished by feeding fall turnips as described above. 

 If large roots are fed, they must be cut up in some form. 

 When a silo is at hand, ensilage may be given in place 

 of roots, or both may be fed until the following spring, 

 and in large quantities until grass comes again. If only 

 one of these can be fed, roots are decidedly preferable. 



Meal must be more freely fed to such calves than 

 to those weaned in the spring, as they are not inclined 

 to eat so freely of dry fodder as of fresh grass, but the 



