730 The Fattening of Calves for Veal, [march, 



Three gallons per day is as much as a calf can comfortably take 

 at a month old, and in all cases the milk should be served to 

 the calf freshly drawn from the mother, if at all possible. 



Castor Oil and " White Scour T — As soon as a calf begins to 

 scour, or even before if it looks at all sickly, it should receive a 

 tablespoonful of castor oil in warm milk. With this treatment 

 the calf will often take the next meal heartily, but if allowed to 

 run on unchecked, complications may set in which will prove 

 fatal. An error in diet is probably the commonest cause of 

 " scour.'' The important point is to check the disease in its 

 early stages. 



Bntterrnilk. — Many calf-feeders maintain that calves receiving 

 buttermilk along with the sweet milk generally weigh well, and 

 the writer's experience seems to support that idea. The calf in 

 the above table received a small amount of buttermilk during 

 the third week, the proportion being gradually increased till it 

 was about one of buttermilk to ten of new milk ; this was con- 

 tinued till the calf was sold. A glance at the above table will 

 show the striking increase during the third and fourth weeks ; 

 the acidity of the buttermilk seems to stimulate the appetite. 



Auvantage of Feeding Calves often. — A newly-born calf has 

 only a small stomach and requires small quantities of milk at a 

 time, but often, if we are going to follow Nature's way. It is 

 certainly not advisable to feed a calf only twice a day during 

 the first month or six weeks as is sometimes done. A calt 

 fed three times a day will be quite as heavy, if not heavier, 

 at a month old as one five weeks old which has been 

 fed only twice a day. About lb. whole milk will give 

 I lb. of increase in the former case, while to give the same 

 amount of increase in the latter \o\ to 11 lb. will be required. 

 The calf fed twice a day is marketed at least a week later, which 

 in a falling market hieans that a halfpenny to one penny per lb. 

 less would be received for the veal. This is important, as id. per 

 lb. less for the veal would mean 8s. less for a calf weighing 160 

 lb. live weight. 



Fattening Calves versus Cheese-making. — By feeding calves 

 three times a day approximately g\ lb. of milk are required to 

 give I lb. of live weight increase or '6 lb. of veal (carcase weight 

 60 %). Multiplying both by io\ (the weight of i gallon of milk) 



