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liighly concentrated food and allow it to run with the cow and it will 

 have a tendency to lay on flesh, a nd when it matures into a cow it wilL 

 have the same tendency to put on flesh rather than gio to milk. When 

 the calf is dropped allow it to stay with the cow three days, then take it 

 from the cow and feed new milk until it is about two weeks old; then grad- 

 ually change the calf from new milk to skim milk; take about ten days to 

 do that. Don't give skim milk alone, add a little flax seed. Flaxseed If 

 fed whole must be boiled one part seed and six water. And then add one 

 cupful of the jelly to the milk, adding more jelly until six or seven weeka 

 old; then put some nice hay before it and a Mttle green feed along that 

 way. Feed it rather to prodiuce growth than flesh. We don't want the- 

 dairy cow fat but just in a thrifty condition; not to produce fat but just 

 keep th.e calf growing along nicely. In that case if the calf is well bred 

 it should develop into a high class dairy cow. Ifl you overfeed when 

 young you may spoil tlie best bred calf, although sometimes I hav€ seen 

 calves fed highly and you would think they were apparently ruined by 

 flesh, but grew out of it,- but sometimes you spoil them. 



Mr. Dorsey:' You advocate the use of skim milk. Suppose you had: 

 no skim milk,, what would you do? 



A. In that case new milk until four weeks old and afterwards 

 make it a gruel Use water and somie corn meal or add meal and add 

 some flaxseed and feed it. We have fed some calves in that way. In 

 the summer time wihen milk is taken to the factory we could not afford 

 to keep milk at home and have raised them on corn meal or corn meal 

 and water and bring themi up in that way. They will not grow as rapid- 

 ly as with skim milk. 



Question No. 4: Why are dilution water separators condemned? 



A. Any man studying dairying properly will know they were used 

 thirty years ago and we do not want to waste our time on it. 



Mr. Dorsey: I would like to have a thorough answer on that ques- 

 tion. It is giving good satisfaction. People of good sound sense as 

 a good many of us here are using it and satisfied with tit. I ask hon- 

 estly why it is condemned? 



