174 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Holstein-Friesian cattle and pernaps it is more difficult to hurt them than 

 a Jersey. I think they would stand more corn. They are less apt to take 

 on fat as calves than some of the other breeds. I have found it so myself. 



Mr. Noyes: That touches me exactly. That is where my pocket book 

 got lean on the Jerseys. I thought the Jersey calf must be pampered. 

 They will not bear that; tne others may, but the Jerseys will not. I have 

 one now that was weaned 1 just as soon as she could be weaned. 



Mr. Coolidge: In calf feeding, several have spoken of being very care- 

 ful the first week. We have no trouble of that kind. We let the calf suck 

 and feed it new milk for a week without danger to the calf. 



Bluff Jersey: I have followed raising Jersey calves for the past ten 

 years and have the best Jersey herds in the country. My rule is and always 

 has been to raise calves by feeding and not sucking. Let the calf have 

 all the milk it will take, until the milk was gone, and then perhaps you all 

 know that a Jersey cow's milk is too rich for a calf. We use the Babcock 

 test and ascertain what percentage of skim milk to add to make three 

 per cent milk. Two pounds to a feed and feed three times a day. My boys 

 are the calf raisers and they use a thermometer and, a scale and use them 

 twice a day always. After the calf is 10 or 12 days old we use a little bran 

 or meal. We add the grain ration and keep clover hay before the calves 

 at all times. 



Mr. Patten: Doesn't he endanger his cow to milk fever by taking 

 her calf away too quickly? 



Buff Jersey: I will answer inthis way. I have been in the dariy 

 business 30 years and have lost but two cows, one with milk fever in 30 

 years, and my father before me lost none. 



