1903 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
243 
CALVES ON MILK SUBSTITUTES. 
The following, from the* New England 
Homestead, opens up a subject I have 
long desired to see discussed. If this is 
all right it will be valuable to me: “Seven¬ 
teen calves were raised, having a start on 
whole milk. They consumed an average 
of 121 pounds, which at five cents per quart 
would have been worth $1.25. The calves 
raised on milk substitutes made just as 
rajiid and satisfactory growth, determined 
by the scales, as other calves fed upon a 
skim-milk and grain ration. The total cost 
01 raising calves to four months of age on 
milk substitutes, at which time they were 
ready to put on hay and grain rations, did 
not exceed $10 per calf.” E. l. s. 
No. Truro, Mass. 
The experiments referred to were re¬ 
ported in Bulletin No. 60, Pennsylvania 
Experiment Station, and show fairly 
good results. The ration that gave best 
results was composed of wheat flour, 30 
pounds; cocoanut meal, 25 pounds; 
nutrium, 20 pounds; linseed meal, 10 
pounds, and dried blood, two pounds. 
One pound of this mixture was added to 
six pounds of hot water, after stirring a 
few minutes allowed to cool to 98 de¬ 
grees and fed. The credit for the suc¬ 
cess was chiefly attributed to the ingre-' 
dient nutrium, which is nothing more 
or less than dried skim-milk. It cost 10 
cents per pound, which of course makes 
pretty costly skim-milk. About nine 
pounds of this dried product is made 
from 100 pounds, or a cost of 90 cents 
per 100 pounds of milk. In the Summer 
the value of whole milk would not great¬ 
ly exceed this amount. I figured upon 
the food very soon after the bulletin 
came out, but could see no pronounced 
advantage in paying such an extrava¬ 
gant price for the skim-milk. 
I took good care of them in Winter, 
however, and did quite well in getting 
eggs. Then I began feeding strongly 
all the year around, and in consequence 
got an abundance of eggs in Spring and 
Summer but none in Winter in spite of 
all that I could do. Now I make a prac¬ 
tice of keeping the young stock separ¬ 
ated from the layers and feed the form¬ 
er strongly for early maturity while 
with the layers I allow them largely to 
forage for a living after June 1. Re¬ 
sults seem to confirm this as the correct 
method of management I would like to 
say a word in regard to allowing poul¬ 
try to balance their own rations. It has 
this merit, certainly that the fowls will 
not be underfed. But do they always se¬ 
lect according to what food elements 
their health and egg production de¬ 
mand? Feed a hen nothing but corn 
and yet she will run after it in prefer¬ 
ence to any other grain unless gorged 
with it. Crack that corn and she loses 
her partiality for it. It is the large size 
of the unbroken grain that makes it 
pleasant to the taste and satisfying to 
greed. It would seem then that other 
considerations besides the requirements 
of the system have something to do with 
the selection of food. grant da vis. 
New Jersey. 
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Aside from the cocoanut meal we have 
the other foods constantly on hand, and 
use them and put with them just a little 
whole milk at each feeding until, as in 
our own case, they will digest hay, these 
grain foods and whey, which we have in 
abundance. The fact of the whole busi¬ 
ness is that the first four weeks the deli¬ 
cate digestion of the calf cannot assimi¬ 
late anything but milk and get much 
growth from it, and any effort on my 
part has usually resulted in a loss of 
growth. To get anything like reasonable 
results even after four weeks the great¬ 
est care must be exercised to prevent 
scouring, which is nothing but nature’s 
effort to free the bowels from waste ma¬ 
terial that they cannot use, and so to 
prevent poison purging takes place, and 
tile animal is quickly free from it. We 
teed new milk in small quantities, two 
quarts three times a day, for a couple 
of weeks, and then twice a day. While 
this small quantity does not make great 
growth it does not injure digestion, and 
soon the calf is feeding upon wheat mid¬ 
dlings or finely ground oats, with lin¬ 
seed meal and what hay it will eat. 
H. E. COOK. 
MR. MAPES AND HIS HENS. 
On page 176 Mapes tells of his appar¬ 
ently contradictory experiments in feed¬ 
ing for eggs in Summer and in Winter. 
Now 1 do not wholly agree with his view 
of the case, and I would like to offer an 
explanation of what he finds dark upon 
the subject. Mr. Mapes, as he tells us, 
fed liberally and correctly for eggs dur¬ 
ing the normal laying season and, in 
consequence, his hens did their utmost. 
They exhausted their supply for the year 
and neither the same good treatment nor 
any other would make them lay during 
the following Winter. Being favored 
during the natural breeding season they 
did the work of repi'oduction and were 
out of business until that season return¬ 
ed again. Mr. Mapes apparently over¬ 
looks this obvious fact when he attrib¬ 
utes his non-success with eggs the fol¬ 
lowing Winter to the grain and feed ra¬ 
tion he uses with so much success dur¬ 
ing Summer. Let him keep his layers 
on a maintenance ration during the nor¬ 
mal laying season and feed his egg ra¬ 
tion in Winter, together with exercise 
and something to make up for insects 
and grass which fowls get in Summer, 
and he will see different results. 
Several years ago, when I began pay¬ 
ing attention to poultry on the farm, 
mey were especially cared for only in 
Winter, in Summer I scarcely knew 
that I had fowls except when they got 
in adjoining grain fields, and so they 
had to shift pretty much for themselves. 
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