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but if kept on pasture two meals of grain is probably sufficient 

 after the first six or eight months. Water and salt should 

 be accessible at all times. 



The above observations, which are taken from the United 

 States publication referred to, may be read with the suggestions 

 as to feeding made in the Board's Leaflet, No. 79 (Rations 

 for Farm Stock), which states that yearling bullocks intended 

 to be house-fed for early beef of, say, about 8 cwt. live weight 

 at about nineteen months old, should have the diet recom- 

 mended for calves rising a year old, that is about 1 to i\ lb. 

 of mixed linseed cake and meal, 4 lb. or more of hay and 3 to- 

 10 lb. of swedes (or grass in summer). This may be steadily 

 increased, until they finish with two-thirds of the ration of a 

 full-milking shorthorn cow. At about fifteen months old the 

 fattening yearling would in this way be receiving a diet like 

 No. 1 ; and at eighteen or twenty months of age, when 

 finishing for the butcher, a ration like No. 2 would be suitable. 

 The albuminoid ratio in both cases is about 1 to 5. 



No. 1. — 21 lb. Swedes. No. 2. — 37 lb. Swedes. 



7 Hay. 10 Oat Straw. 



2 Oats. 3 „ Maize, Barley, or Wheat. 



3 ,, Linseed Cake. 3 ,, Linseed Cake. 



2 Decorticated Cotton Cake. 



Yearling store bullocks and heifers turned out to grass in 

 the spring require no extra food, but should come in full of 

 flesh in late autumn. For wintering yearling stores a liberal 

 allowance of turnips and straw, with from 2 to 4 lb. per day 

 each, according to size, of mixed decorticated cotton cake 

 and meal, should be given in order to produce well-grown 

 and " fresh " beasts for the spring store sales. If, however r 

 they are intended for the fat market in the new year, 

 when close upon two years old, they will require more liberal 

 feeding, and by the beginning of December will pay for a ration 

 of five-sixths that of a cow in full milk, such as : — 



No. 3. — 42 lb. Swedes. No. 4.-42 lb. Cabbages or No. 5. — 22 lb. Mangolds. 



14 ,, Oat Straw. Yellow Tur- 18 Oat Straw. 



3 ,, Maize, Meal or nips. 4 ,, Crushed Oats- 



4 lb. Crushed 7 Hay. 4% „ Decorticated 

 Barley or Rice 6 ,;, Straw. Cotton Cake- 

 Meal. 4,, Crushed^ C 3 lb. Crushed Oats. 



4 ,, Decorticated Oats. I ) 5 ,, Dried Grains. 



Cotton Cake 6,,Driedj or 1 i 35 Linseed, 

 or 5 lb. Lin- Grains J \ 



seed Cake. 



Leaflet No. 142 (Calf Rearing) also contains suggestions as 

 to feeding calves. 



