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the milk and adding a teaspoonful of dried blood while the calf 

 is drinking. 



In a test that was made with five calves that were scouring 

 at the same time, two were fed dried blood after reducing the 

 regular feed of milk ; the others were fed dried blood without 

 changing the feed of milk. In the former case the calves recov- 

 ered after two feeds and the latter after three feeds. 



For weakly or sickly calves, the following experiments may 

 be of value to the reader : 



In the spring of 1899, the station had a calf that did very 

 poorly, in seventy-nine days it gained only four pounds. After 

 trying several other remedies, dried blood was used with success ; 

 the calf began to gain, and by the time it was a year old weighed 

 578 pounds. 



In October, 1900, a heifer belonging to the college dropped 

 her first calf ; the calf was small and sickly, and for the first 

 few weeks did very poorly, as will be seen by the statement that 

 on December 1 it weighed two pounds less than it did November 

 1, and for a few weeks its life was in a very critical condition. 

 As soon as it was induced to eat a little dried blood it made very 

 fair gains. 



In feeding dried blood a teaspoonful at a feed is a great 

 plenty. This should be continued until the scours disappear, or, 

 in the case of a weak calf, the allowance may be increased to a 

 tablespoonful per feed. The blood should be thoroughly mixed 

 with the milk, to prevent it settling to the bottom of the pail. 



The packing companies are now making soluble blood-meal 

 that is claimed to dissolve in milk much more readily than the 

 regular dried blood. Xo dried blood should be used that has not 

 been thoroughly sterilized; otherwise it would be comparatively 

 easy to carry disease into the herd. 



In severe cases of scours, the addition of one or two eggs 

 with the dried blood has been found to be very effective. 



Another remedy that has been found to be successful is to 

 give from one to two ounces of castor oil in the morning, and 



