Il6 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



When you go to the barn in the morning and open the door and there 

 is a little calf, do you know what she thinks of when she sees you? She 

 thinks of an element of danger, and she thinks the same things you would 

 when danger presents itself to you. You want to run, and she thinks the 

 same thing and she speaks to that calf and gets on the other side from 

 you and wants to get out. You slam the door and go to the house and 

 say to the boys, " Don't go to the barn, she is cross and wants to be let 

 alone." You ought to go and close the door without saying a word, and 

 go to the house and get a pail of water with the chill off and go back 

 and open the door and step in and say, " Here is a pail of water, and she 

 will drink it. She will drink it for she is famishing for a drink of water. 

 She will look up and look you right in the face and be as greatful, and 

 will show her gratitude when she freshens again. She will speak to her 

 calf, and it will mean this: You are a nice little calf and you will come 

 in front of the cow. Between you and the cow, that is what happens. 

 You leave this calf and this mother by themselves together in the same 

 place and you go away, and come back again in four hours and give her 

 another drink of water and she will thank you again. Increase this drink 

 as she is famishing for a little water and a little feed, just a little feed 

 to take in the stomach to help her, and she will be all right. 



Then for two or three days the calf is allowed to run with its mother. 

 Let it have its mother's milk at first and it will start it out and it will 

 grow on that mother's milk. You remember this: This cow has a fever. 

 Don't turn her out such a day as this. What business have you to turn 

 this mother on such a day as this? Keep her in the barn. Let her keep 

 away from cold drafts, as all that great big, large udder will be affect- 

 ed is the slightest congestion or cold sets in. 



Two, three or four days later you are going to teach her how to 

 milk. She is nervous. Putting her calf over in a corner is a pretty good 

 thing. She will be in the same room with it, yet not with her. Work on 

 the confidence of that cow and go over in the other corner and she will eat 

 and let you come where the calf is, and if she won't, she has no confidence 

 in you. Let her come back and carress the calf and you can milk her then. 

 She will think you are the calf. Then take this cow away to the barn 

 and put her in her old place in the stanchion, or in the stall and in a 

 few days again she will be alright. If you have the means of providing 



