ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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milk from my cows. I think a great deal of that separator milk that 

 comes from the factory. My mil k goes to the factory every morning^ 

 and the skim milk is brought back home. I feed the morning ratiort 

 warm, and the might ration is heated by steam at the creamery, and witte 

 the addition of good ground flax seed, why I succeed in raising very goo(3i 

 calves. 



I have now ten on hand that are just about a year old. A gentleman 

 asked me last week what I would take for the bunch. I ran them over 

 the scale anid the teni weighed 64 00 pounds. 



Q. How old? 



A. Average a year. 



Q. How many pounds? 



A. 6400, average 640 pounds. One is a little older than a year, but 

 that is the average. 



My idea is to have my cows come in November and feeding separator 

 milk in cold weather, why I do get some very good calves. 



Q. Do they pastuerize the skim milk? 



A. Yes, sir; I did not know, but he said it is. 



Mr. Gurler: How much skim milk do you feed a calf at a feed? 



A. An ordinary corn pail not over half full. 



Q. Use that quantity of milk with a little calf? 



A. I have a largei box stall i n which I put the little onesi at birth, and 

 they have their mother's milk, the whole milk, for about a couple of 

 weeks, and then, instead of mixin g it, I give them the separator milk as 

 it come® from the factory warm a nd heat it at night for them. Whole 

 milk at night for a couple of wee ks and then change it. In a few day® 

 they learn to mumble a little drycorn. 



Mr. Gurler: I raised over fifty heifer calves from separator skins 

 milk and know why I ask you how much skim milk you feed. The first 

 trouble I had was in preventing my men from feeding too much. 



A. That is the trouble, they do want tOAfeed too much skim milk. 



Mr. Gurler: They want it so rapidly, and after they drink that milk 

 I scatter the whole grain and some eat a little. I keep the corn and cut 

 it with a machine and it goes in on the feed every morniing. 



