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as to whether she has a black tongue or a black tail, and it is 

 a reflection upon the American Jersey Cattle Club that that 

 is left in the blanks, and I am a member of the club, too. 



Mr. Perriam: Do you think you have made it clear as 

 to why it is only necessary to feed the young calf twice a day? 



Prof. Haecker : I am astonished that men step on a plat- 

 form and say that you should feed a calf three of four times 

 a day, disarranging the digestive tract and putting the calf 

 in an abnormal condition. All the calf can handle is two 

 little meals per day. If it has too much the stomach will 

 certainly get out of order. 



A Member: It will suck its mother oftener than twice a 

 day? 



Prof. Haecker: A calf will not always do that, which 

 is for the best. 



Mr. Monrad: According to my experience with calves 

 running with the mothers, they will feed not only three or 

 four times, but eight and nine times. 



Prof. Haecker: That is when they get old enough and 

 run with the cow, they don't know what else to do, so they go 

 to the teat. 



Mr. Perriam: They suck oftener when quite young than 

 when they get older, because the digestive tract of the young 

 calf is very small. 



A Member: I am running a dairy and I have lost nine 

 calves in three weeks. They come all right and live to be a 

 day or so old, then get the scours and die. 



The Chairman: I think it is what in some sections is 

 termed calf cholera. 



The Member: A man in my neighborhood who is raising 

 Guernseys has had some of the same difficulty, and I have 

 some among some registered Jerseys. It seems as though the 

 calf is gone before you know there is anything wrong. I 

 have fed the cows in different ways. I have fed hay and a 

 little grain and then changed off, made it first one thing and 

 then another, and it is all the same. 



Prof. Haecker: I have no name for this disease; the calf 

 will come all right and will play around the dam probably A 

 day, and then it will lie down and generally it begins to bawl 



