116 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



DISCUSSION. 



I am asked if I have any trouble? No sir, I tell you if you feed the 

 calves whole milk you can have any amount of trouble with young calves. 

 If you feed them too much you will get them to scouring, and if you 

 don't decrease the feed the calves will be ruined. Now I see so many 

 mistakes. One of my patrons who bought 10 calves from me came into 

 my office and told me he had lost five or six. I said: "Man, what is 

 the matter?" He told me he thought they got chilled going from my 

 place to his, ten miles. I told him I thought there must be some other 

 cause. Then he said his son told him that they fed them too much milk. 

 I made inquiry and found that the calves soon got to scouring. I said 

 to him: "The boy is all right." The boy was all right and the man was 

 at fault. The boy was on the wagon and I called to him and asked him 

 about it. The amount of feed th e calves had been getting was way be- 

 yond what they should have had. "That is just what I told father all the 

 time," the boy remarked. 



This is true not only with calves, but with young pigs. Pigs are 

 ruined many times by feeding them too much skim milk. I have seen 

 young pigs that were sucking their mother affected that way when it did. 

 not affect their mother at all. I ruined 25 on buttermilk and 'spoiled 

 all of them. I physiced them to death. 



Men will go home from the creamery and dump all of the skim milk 

 in a trough and let the pigs have all they want of it. Over-feeding warm 

 milk will soon cause them to scour. 



Another point I want you to consider is the cost of giving the calf 

 new milk and skim milk. Our experiment stations have done a great 

 deal of work along the line of showing the comparative cost of the milk 

 diet for calves, between skim milk and new or whole milk. Now, I think, 

 putting several' of these experiment stations' work together, it is per- 

 fectly safe to say that it costs twice as much for the whole milk to give 

 it to calves as it does for the skim milk, and you can have just as good, 

 or better, calves for dairy purposes on skim milk. Indiana and Penn- 



