Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. ^^^ 



a silo for calf feeding a useful adjunct to the farm. Calves like 

 silage, they eat largely of it, so there you will have a ration for 

 your calf which it will be difficult to better, that is simply by 

 feeding skim milk, either ground corn and ground oats, or whole 

 corn and whole oats, corn silage, clover and alfalfa hay. 



In summer, of course the calf should be allowed to run to 

 pasture. It should get exercise at all times, there is nothing 

 that appreciates exercise more than a young animal. House a 

 child up and it becomes puny, no matter how well it is fed or 

 dressed. If you keep him in the house all winter by spring he 

 has not the health and vigor that the young child has that plays 

 out doors a portion of every day the whole year. The same 

 thing holds true of any young animal and holds true of the 

 young calf. We should always provide a yard, properly shel- 

 tered from the cold winds, where these youngsters can go and 

 play and be out in the sun light quite a portion of every day. 



There is another thing to bear in mind, that is developing 

 capacity of the calves. There is nothing we appreciate more in 

 our cows than capacity. You remember Mr. Gregg told you 

 that when his animal was even a calf it came away down. We 

 prize that. You will find judges in the dairy ring when judging 

 dairy cows want an animal with a good barrel. When you buy 

 a cow that is one of the first things you look for, to find an ani- 

 mal with a large barrel. You know an animal that does not 

 eat a large amount of food does not digest and assimilate any 

 more, and the amount of milk and butter fat an minimal produces 

 is in proportion to the amount of food she can consume, digest 

 and assimilate, so we should not only breed for this but we should 

 feed for it, and nothing is better for that than alfalfa hay or 

 corn silage during the first and second years. 



After a calf has passed through the calf stage, I doubt 

 whether it is necessary to feed it more grain or not. If a Fall 

 calf, by the next Fall it has sufficient size and capacity and di- 

 gestive apparatus so it can live on the roughage which otherwise 

 would be wasted on your farm, so by following these suggestions 

 you will find the calf has cost you little to raise. Has cost you 

 skim milk, a very small amount of grain in the way of corn and 

 oats, a small amount of anything but roughage in the form of 

 clover or alfalfa hay, silage and pasture grass. The second 

 winter it is possible for it to consume a great amount of rough- 



