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dairymen would raise more calves tbeir dairies would be 

 more easily kept up. ISTo objection to feeding sweet milk, 

 only that we do not get so much butter by so doing. 



J. R. McLean, of Elgin, said the question is an old one, 

 and has received no little attention from dairymen. He had 

 favored the idea of raising calves for years ; had raised calves 

 on sweet whey, scalded; also u&ed a littl« oats and meal; fed 

 mush, or pudding, made of corn meal, putting in sweet milk; 

 fed no bran until September. He got a Holstein calf and 

 took it home, and in three weeks his cows increased a can of 

 milk. [This was said in reply to a question as to what he 

 thought of the Holstein stock.] He had a cow which he had 

 raised that gave sixty -one and a quarter pounds of milk per 

 day. 



Thos. Bishop said he w^ould let calves suck until nine days 

 old, and then put them in the barn and feed them milk; his 

 steers at two years old weighed 700. It required about ninety 

 gallons of milk to raise a calf. 



Dr. Woodward, of Marengo, thought one of the greatest 

 leaks was in not having good cows, and thought it impossi- 

 ble to have good cows unless we raise good calves. 



Dr. Joseph Tefft said that in raising calves in winter a 

 dairyman would have to provide a different kind of feed from 

 what he did in summer. 



S. W. KiNGSLEY, of Barrington, said he had been raising 

 calves for years, and would continue to do so. 



Topic No. 13. ''To what extent may soiling be profitably 

 substituted for pasturage?'' was opened by J. R. McLean, 

 who said this is the first year we have sown corn for cattle; 

 feed from shock; am convinced that it is a good way; will 

 try it again; feed Hungarian in October. 



D. C. ScoFiELD, Elgin, said we are left without data on 

 which to base calculations. When we fail to have pasturage 

 to keep up the flow of milk, then we need Hungarian and 

 sweet and early corn; but if there were pasturage there would 

 be little need of soiling. • - 



Prof. F. H. Hall said he was feeling his way in regard to 



