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If taken in time this will check it. I raise 

 about thirty heifer calves every winter on 

 separator skim-milk and have not had an un- 

 thrifty calf in two years. Linseed-meal is an 

 excellent food to use with skim-milk. My 

 practice is to add a spoonful to the milk at the 

 time it is fed. 



Keep calves dry. ^Grreat care must be taken 

 to keep the calves dry at all times. This re- 

 quires a large amount of bedding. Calves will 

 not thrive unless kept dry. I have had grade 

 Short-horn calves gain two and one-half pounds 

 each per day when four to five months old and 

 were fed skim-milk, corn-meal and timothy 

 hay. These were steer calves that were fed 

 for ve*al. My heifer calves that I raise for 

 cows I do not want to get fat, but keep them 

 in a thrifty condition and growing all the time 

 until they become mothers. A bunch of nice, 

 thrifty calves is one of the prettiest sights on 

 a farm. 



Massachusetts station work. — The Massa- 

 chusetts Experiment Station after a number 

 of years' experiments (one object of which was 

 to learn the value of skim-railk as a pig food) 

 commenced some work to learn the value of 

 skim-milk as a food for young calves. In this 

 work there were seven calves, each kept, 

 weighed, and fed independent of the others, so 

 there were seven trials going on at the same 



