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its souring. My calves thrive and come along nicely. 



A Member: How much of that mixture do you feed at 

 a time? 



Mr. Judd: About four quarts after the calf has got well 

 started. 



A Member: Equal parts of milk and water? 



Mr. Judd: No milk after about ten da^^s. I make the 

 old-fashioned gruel. I use the old process oil cake meal, and 

 I think it has about twenty per cent, of fat. 



The Member: What breed of cattle are you feeding? 



Mr. Judd: Grades from a thoroughbred Holstein sire 

 and the common Shorthorn cows that we have generally 

 through the country. 



The Member: Would you use separator milk if you 

 had it? 



Mr. Judd: I would in preference to the water, but I 

 would use oil cake meal with it. I do not think skim milk 

 is a balanced ration unless you put flax seed meal with it. 

 You won't have scours if you don't feed too much. The 

 trouble with flax seed is you have to boil it. 



The Member : I undestand Prof. Haecker does not boil it. 



Mr. Judd: I have learned a great deal from Prof. 

 Haecker; I consider his talks here worth millions of dollars to 

 the dair^'^men of this State, if they would only apply it. I think 

 that one trouble with our dairymen has been that we have 

 been at altogether too much expense in getting our feed to 

 the cow; we put too much work on it. If you w^ill allow 

 me, I w^ill give you the ration that we have fed two or three 

 years. For twenty-five cows, I feed 125 pounds of sheaf oats, 

 125 pounds of bran, 600 pounds of corn fodder — that corn is 

 planted five or six kernels in a hill, cut up when the ears 

 are mature enough to pick and put in a crib; left standing 

 in the shocks a couple of weeks. A man goes around to half 

 a dozen shocks and measures, and so we know how it is aver- 

 aging. If it is going sixty bushels we take out all but thirty, 

 leaving twenty-five or thirty bushels of corn in the shock. The 

 balance we put in the crib ; then haul that fodder in each day 

 and I feed it out in the yard in racks, and my cows have never 

 given me more satisfactory returns, and one man will care for 

 fifty head of cattle. 



