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are fed simply roughage. This winter I have been feeding 

 fodder corn, nothing else, giving them all they want to eat 

 and we never had a nicer lot of heifers than we have at the 

 present time; ten head of thoroughbreds, Jerseys, Guernseys, 

 Swiss and Holsteins, and all they have had since they came 

 from pasture is simply cut fodder corn. 



DISCUSSION. 



A Member: Is this skim milk separator milk, and do 

 you sterilize it? 



Prof. Haecker: It is separator milk. We don't have to 

 sterilize it at the station, but I presume you would have to, 

 where you have creamery skim milk. We heat it by putting 

 it in hot water. 



Mr. Hostetter: Have you salt in the pasture where the 

 calves can get it? 



Prof. Haecker: Yes. We have salt in that runway, 

 where the calves and the cows and the young stock are. This 

 runway is part of the basement, half of the basement is used 

 for a common runway, and the othed half for stalls. 



Mr. Waite: Which do you prefer for dairy purposes, fall 

 calves or spring calves? 



Prof. Haecker: By all means fall calves. In the first 

 place the cow will give me a larger yield of milk for twelve 

 months, if she comes in in the fall than if she comes in in 

 the spring; in the second place, it will cost me less to rear 

 a calf during the first six months if it is winter time than it 

 will in summer time; in the third place, we must feed a calf 

 anyway from four to six months, and we might as well do that 

 during the winter when we have to take care of it ; then in the 

 spring it is let out to pasture and you have no more trouble 

 with it. Therefore, when your calf is a year old, you have 

 given it personal attention for from four to five months, the 

 balance of the time it has taken care of itself. 



Mr. Seeley: What is the objection to feeding a little 

 grain? Can't you increase the growth? 



Prof. Haecker: Why do you want growth? 



Mr. Seeley: You will get earlier maturity. 



