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 QUERY BOX. 



RAISING CALVES ON SKIM MILK. 



Methods are varied and plans abundant in this particular 

 line of work. 



An old hand in the St. Paul Farmer brings out a very good 

 system which he calls a way of selling butter or cheese, or 

 cream all the season round and turning out two good calves, all 

 from one good cow. How to solve the above is the object of 

 this query and we excerpt the points which this correspondent 

 makes : 



" The plan is not my own," he says ; " I picked it up from a 

 capable little Scotch woman who had been raised in a good 

 dairy country, and began after coming to the far west to make the 

 money by dairying that her husband quite failed to do by grain 

 farming. She began five years ago with one good little cow, 

 some 750 pounds in weight, and will this year milk thirty-five. 

 She is at this minute raising over a dozen nice, thrifty growing 

 calves on skim milk and a bite of oats or linseed oil cake ; either 

 will do if you cannot have both. 



" For a fortnight only the calf get its mother's milk straight. 

 After that crushed oats, or a few little nubs of oil cake, or both 

 together, in a small trough readily accessible, which it soon 

 begins too munch. The skim milk is warmed up morning, mid- 

 day and evening to blood heat. When the calf gets older it 

 drinks only twice a day sweet, warm skim milk, and flourishes 

 apace. Once the oatmeal and cake were boiled, with very 

 unsatisfactory results. They do much better and save a deal of 

 work by being used dry. Butter at 25 cents a pound taken from 

 the milk, is replaced with cake at 1 cent, the difference is the pay 

 nd profit on well-spent labor. Good butter and good skim milk 

 calves is the order of business. No pot bellies and lean quar- 

 ters, but nice bright eyed creatures that make good heifers or 

 steers, and the money is flowing in all the year round, while the 

 herd grows bigger year by year through natural increase." 



Prof. Stewart reports that he has raised many calves from 



