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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Adding Flaxseed Meal or Blachford's Meal to the 

 Cale Ration. Several authorities on calf rearing advised the 

 addition of flaxseed meal to the ration, in order that the fat in 

 this meal may be utilized to take the place of the fat extracted 

 from the milk in the process of separation. Balchford's calf meal 

 has also been recommended for this purpose. The flaxseed meal 

 was made into a jelly, and the quantity fed was increased grad- 

 ually from a tablespoonful to one-half pound daily per head. 

 Blachford's meal was made into a gruel and fed in about twice 

 the quantities that flaxseed meal was. All the calves were given 

 what Kafir-corn meal, hay and green alfalfa they would eat. The 

 calves receiving the flaxseed meal did not do as well as those with- 

 out it. Those getting Blachford's meal gained a little better than 

 the others, but as the meal costs in the neighborhood of $70 per 

 ton and flaxseed meal in the neighborhood of $125 per ton, it 

 certainly will not pay the farmer to use these high-priced sub- 

 stitutes for butter-fat unless he can make better gains than were 

 made in our experiment. 



Eeeect oe Feeding Blachford's Sugar and Flaxseed 

 and Dried Blood as a Part oe the Grain Ration. Thirty 

 calves, divided in three lots of ten each, were used in this ex- 

 periment. The results are recorded in table XIX. 



Table XIX. — Results with Balchford's sugar and flaxseed and dried blood. 



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Grain 



Fed 







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Dried-blood lot 10 



Blachford's sugar and 



flaxseed lot 10 



Check lot 10 



105 13,215.5 1,0.30 1,03ft 68.5 2,128.5 



105 

 105 



13,557.5 529.2 1,088 

 13,542.5 1,048 



1,088 

 1,048 



2,705.2 

 2,096.0 



