Jfrt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1503 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Rearing the Dairy Calf 
This is the title of Cornell Junior Ex¬ 
tension Bulletin 3, published in April, 
1919, and should be read and closely fol¬ 
lowed by every dairyman. The little 
things in earing for a young calf are im¬ 
portant, such as the right amount of milk 
fed; three to four pints, three times a 
day, and exactly the .same amount (I 
weigh it every time) and the right tem¬ 
perature, 95 degrees (I use a thermom¬ 
eter). The directions for teaching calf 
to drink are good; fingers slightly apart 
inserted in the mouth, but coax the nose 
into the milk; not force it. If the calf 
gets the habit of butting the pail, remove 
the pail a minute and he will soon learn 
not to butt. Never lose your temper with 
a dumb animal. If you do you are in no 
condition to teach it. 
There are several points that I want to 
add to these directions that I have found 
very practical. The calf, if perfectly 
thrifty, may be fed a little skim-milk at 
two weeks old, aud he may be taught to 
begin to chew a few blades of nice Alfalfa 
or clove: - at one week by putting it into 
the month after feeding, so as to make a 
start at developing a cud. Both of these 
points are beneficial to the future cow W* 
developing the digestive organs. .Skim- 
milk is a little harder to digest than 
whole milk, and if the calf is well and 
strong it should begin to develop its di¬ 
gestive powers by using to near its capac¬ 
ity. 
What we want in a dairy cow is the 
largest possible digestive capacity, a high¬ 
ly developed alimentary canal, large, well- 
developed stomach to hold coarse food 
and make it into blood aud then milk; 
also development of the salivary glands. 
We do not care so much for a very large 
cow in the dairy. 
It- is a rule in all animals, humans in¬ 
cluded. that development is most rapid 
and habits are fixed most easily when 
very young. Habits may be voluntary <n- 
Involuntary. You may teach a horse to 
kick involuntarily. You may teach a calf 
to depend on rich, easily digested food, 
and it takes more thought to teach her to- 
digest a large quantity of coarse food and 
more care that you do not overtax the di¬ 
gestion, and that she gets enough nutri¬ 
tion. I would raise the dairy cow on just 
as coarse food as possible, and have her 
always thrifty and growiug, and I would 
feed her just as much such food as I 
could possibly get her to eat aud digest. 
Then, when she is mature and giving 
milk, I would still feed her on curse feed 
and she would continue to grow in diges¬ 
tive capacity until four oi five years old. 
and I think she would have a capacity 
for an immense yield and might be fed 
more concentrated food and digest it all. 
The fact that, milkmen near the cities 
used to like to buy their cows for forcing 
large amounts of milk from farmers that 
had brought them up nn grass and hay 
and not much grain, confirms my theory. 
I have practiced this method of bringing 
up calves for years, and so far as my ob¬ 
servation goes it has worked out well. Of 
course, a largo cow is more desirable if 
she has a correspondingly large digestive 
capacity, but if a cow has always been 
thrifty and growing, I prefer the one 
that has not been forced and pampered by 
rich food. I would prefer not to feed 
any grain to a calf after 10 months old. 
if I had good clover or Alfalfa hay and 
silage, until mature. 
I would add a pint of warm water to 
such feed at one week old, and increase 
gradually until it was half water, and 
then feed half water ns long as I fed 
milk. This is my practice to extend the 
stomach. My calves have never been 
what are known as- “pot-bellied.” I feed 
grain to young calves, preferably corn- 
meal, oats and oilmeal. Cornmeal and 
oilmeal in connection with skint-milk fur¬ 
nish a substitute for the fat removed 
from the milk, but the grain is harder to 
digest, which is good training for the 
digestion. Oats give vigor. Boots are 
good. I gradually decrease the propor¬ 
tion of grain as the calf grows older. 1 
would not have a heifer calf fed whole 
milk until two months old in any case. 
If they cannot be put on a skim-milk 
and grain and hay ration before that time 
and be thrifty, something is wrong, and 
the calf hardly worth raising. Calves 
must have all they will eat of good feed, 
not grain. Often Fall calves turned out 
to pasture the next Spring "ill lack for 
good gras? in Summer and Fall. They 
should not be fed grain, but clover. Al¬ 
falfa. cornstalks or silage, hut preferably 
clover or Alfalfa, and that which is the 
best. 
Some Jersey cows give milk that is too 
rich for their own calves; 3 to 4 per cent 
butterfat test is better than richer milk, 
and the richer milk should be diluted 
with water or skim-milk, or both. It is 
very common for full sisters to vary 
greatly in milk yield, and there is some 
reason for it. It may be lack of strong, 
well-developed digestion, or impaired di¬ 
gestion caused by sickness or untbrift- 
iness. for I nelieve that an unthrifty calf 
never fully recovers so that she is as good 
as she would have been if always thrifty. 
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