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Esry closel-y against. If scours do occur, I think the ex- 

 of different experiment stations is that the best thing 

 to use IS formahne, one part of formahne to four thousand parts 

 of skim milk, is the best cure for calf scours. This was tried 

 in twelve cases, and out of that number eleven cases were cured 

 inside of three days. This is a thing to be borne in mind be-, 

 cause a large percentage of dairymen lose calves from the effects 

 of this one disease. 



I do not know that there is any reason for my going farther 

 into this discussion. I might talk the rest of the afternoon and 

 not strike any specific point you wish to hear about. If there 

 are any certain things you would like to ask about, I would be 

 pleased to do the best I can to answer your questions. 



Discussion. 



Mr. Mason : — In this district we sell our whole milk. When 

 we can sell it for $1.60 per cwt. it is dear calf feed. 



Mr. Van Pelt: — It is extremely expensive feed and I doubt 

 whether or not you could afford to raise calves on milk costing 

 $1.60 a hundred. It seems to me there is a possibility of selling 

 cream. It looks as though there would be a possibility of work- 

 ing up cream trade, so you could take one milking, separate it 

 and sell the cream for as much as you could get out of the milk, 

 keep the skim milk at home and feed it to your calves in the 

 morning, if you separate in the morning; retain the rest of the 

 milk in the same cleanly manner you would keep any milk, heat 

 it up to the same temperature at night. Then you would have 

 half your milk to go to the condensary and half to feed your 

 calves, and I dare say the latter half, selling the cream, would 

 be more profitable. 



Q. — Have you ever tried any of the patent calf meals? 



Mr. Van Pelt : — I have had some experience with different 

 calf meals but I have never fed meal without feeding some milk 

 with it. I expected this question to come up and I want to say 

 the man that can prepare some sort of calf feed that will raise 

 as good calves without milk as you can raise with skim milk 

 has made a fortune like the man that invented Peruna. 



Member: — This territory, anywhere within fifty or sixty 

 miles of Chicago on the C. & N. W. or the roads running West 

 and North, is all milk territory and it would be a breach of con- 

 tract with the city dealers to retain part of the milk, so we have 



