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A. I agree with you. I have raised calves, splendid calves, on sweet 

 whey. It is very good feed for calves, but it don't mix very good with 

 new milk. 



Mr. Gurler: What grain food do you use in connection with that? 



A. Almost immediately we begin to place oats. When they are a 

 week or two old, they will pick at oats a little, and then begin to eat very 

 liberally of oats, and nice, clean hay we keep before them all the while. 

 In the course of time I shell a little corn and place in the oats. 



Q. Do you ever practice feeding corn at first? 



No sir, not until the calves are from four to eight weeks old. They 

 don't chew it. 



Mr. Monrad: You say you use whole corn. 



A. Yes sir. 



Mr. Whetmore: I would say that I commenced feeding whole Corn to 

 calves at two weeks old, and at four weeks old I feed them entirely on 

 corn, oats, and whey, andfl have no trouble in making calves weight 800 

 pounds at a year old. 



Mr. Latimer: I have had considerable experience feeding shelled 

 corn, but don't feed to dAiiry calves. They will begin eating at two weeks 

 old, but it is a fattening i»jod, and for short horn calves and Herefords it 

 is excellent food and they'will eat it. 



Mr. Gurler: I noticed in Iowa that they are feeding shelled corn, 

 clear shelled corn, to the calves as soon as they will eat it. I don't see 

 how they digest it. 



Mr. Latimer: I find by feeding meal the calves eat it too fast and it 

 doesn't digest well. If I feed whole grain it takes them a longer time to 

 masticate it and it digests very much better. 



Mr. Gurler: I was surprised to see the calves out there. They were 

 great big calves nice calves. They took on fat the same as if running with 

 the cow on just shelled corn. 



Prof. Plumb: If you will take notice you can feed young calves the 

 shelled corn up to their neck and it will not pass them at all; but after an 

 animal of the ox class gets to be a yearling and then grain goes through 



