508 



Cod Liver Oil for Calves. 



It therefore seems advisable to continue, for a time at 

 least, the cod liver oil to animals which have been reared at 

 small expense on separated milk and oil ; although the results 

 may not in every case be so profitable as in this instance. 



The earlier experiments conducted in 1899 have since been 

 supplemented by a test concerning the quality of the meat^ 

 A doubt is often expressed as to the beef of animals reared 

 by the help of cod liver oil being equal to that of bullocks 

 reared as calves on whole milk. To determine this, the 

 calves which formed the subject of the 1899 experiments 

 were all treated alike after weaning. It may be recalled 

 that there had been three pens of calves, one of which had 

 received whole milk, the second separated milk and cod liver 

 oil, and the third separated milk and calf meal. The average 

 weights, etc., of the beasts in each pen are shown in the 

 following table : 





Pen I. 



Pen II. 



Ten III. 





Whole Milk. 



Separated Milk 

 and Cod Liver 

 Oil. 



Separated 

 Milk and Calf 

 Meal. 



Weight, Sept. 9th, 1899 (when 



weaned) - 

 Weight, March 2nd, 1901- 

 Increase - - - 



cwts. qrs. lbs. 



2 1 23 

 10 3 b 

 8 1 11 



cwts. qrs. lbs. 



2 1 20 

 II — 15 

 8 2 23 



cwts. qrs. lbs. 



2 — 16 

 10 — 20 

 8 - 4 



Increase per head per day 



1734 lbs. 



1 808 lbs. 



1 -668 lbs. 



Fasted Weight, March 3rd, 1901 

 Weight of Dressed Meat - 



cwts. qrs. lbs. 

 10 • 1 27 

 6 - 7 



cw r ts. qrs. lbs. 

 10 "3 2 

 6 1 7 



cwts. qrs. lbs. 

 9 3ii 

 5 2 14 



Percentage of Carcase) 

 to Live Weight / 



57*97 



58-66 



57-08 



A statement was made to the College concerning the meat 

 of the animals killed. It was reported that the whole-milk 

 beasts killed the worst of the lot, only one of the three being 

 anything like as good as the cod liver oil beasts. Calf meal 

 beasts opened the best, there being more inside fat or suet, 

 but they were not so good all through as the cod liver oil 

 beasts : these were thicker on the ribs, and decidedly the 



