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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 5 
RAISING CALVES WITHOUT MILK. 
A great deal has been written upon 
this subject, and a great many theories 
have been advanced, especially by peo¬ 
ple who never saw a calf, upon raising 
a good calf without milk. I doubt 
whether a calf can be raised successfully 
to be a future cow without feeding a 
sufficient amount of milk. Calves can 
be raised successfully on a very small 
amount of milk provided you get the 
calf to eating a ration that is balanced 
for the maintenance of the calf. I have 
had quite a good deal of experience in 
raising calves, and I find it is not the 
quantity of milk fed so much as it is 
the judgment used in feeding it. I wean 
my caLyes at the time of birth, and 
learn the calf to drink, giving it all the 
milk from the dam that it will take un¬ 
til it is two weeks old, then I take equal 
parts of oil meal and oat fiakes, and 
make a pudding, thoroughly cooking, 
then add a tablespoonful, of the pudding 
to about two quarts of new milk. Mix 
in with this a teaspoonful of blood meal, 
and when the calf is four weeks old 
gradually increase the pudding to three 
or four tablespoonfuls and blood meal 
to a tablespoonful twice a day. When 
the calf is four weeks old and is doing 
nicely, change from new milk to skim- 
milk; after the calf has eaten up this 
ration put a pint of dry bran in his 
bucket and you will be surprised to see 
how quickly he will commence to eat 
and grow. When calf is from two to 
four weeks old. he wilj commence to 
pick at hay. He should have some nice 
bright clover hay placed before him 
every day, and good clean bedding. A 
calf that stands in filth not only hates 
himself but hates his owner. Keep your 
calves always feeljng happy and you 
will feel happy yourself, especially when 
you are working around them. When 
the calf is eight weeks old gradually in¬ 
crease the pudding until feeding what 
you think your calf wilj stand, and in 
the meantime keep up blood meal to a 
heaping tablespoonful. After the calf 
begins to thrive and is eating hay and 
bian you can gradually drop off his 
milk and substitute lukewarm water, 
but keeping up the pudding and blood 
meal. It would be best to add a hand¬ 
ful of ground oats and increase the bran 
to all the calf would eat up clean. The 
greatest success is to keep a calf in the 
barn until it is a year old. c. e. iiatcti. 
This is my way of doing it. Leave the 
calf with its mother for 24 hours that it 
may be washed and get its fill of the first 
milk in order to clear its bowels, then 
take it away and feed three times daily 
about two quarts of milk each time for 
three days. All the mother’s milk 
above the six quarts should be kept as 
long as it can be kept sweet, that it may 
be used as long as it lasts to help learn 
the calf to use gruel. On the fourth day 
take one quart of water in a kettle and 
when boiling stir in one teaspoonful of 
old-process (if you can get it) linseed 
meal and about a teaspoon ful of salt. 
Cook it as carefully as if it was a cereal 
for your own breakfast, then stir in 
(after removing from fire) a quart of 
the milk you have saved. Feed this 
mixture fully as warm as the milk would 
be if the calf drew it direct from the 
cow, as the heat helps to prevent scours. 
After a few times increase the gruel and 
put less milk until the calf will eat the 
gruel alone. By rinsing all the milk 
pails and strainers in a little cold water 
and adding that to the gruel it helps. 
Tie a few wisps of hay and let it hang 
where the calf can reach it and it will 
soon learn to eat a little. Keep its bed 
clean and nice. While the calf is feed¬ 
ing note action of bowels; if too loose 
feed a little less, and if constipated in¬ 
crease a little. Care must be used here 
or it will mean a dead calf, or a stunted 
one, which is worse. 
Three different times I have used hay 
tea with this gruel, and each time the 
calf died at about three months old; 1 
do not know why. It is a good deal of 
work to raise a calf this way, and it 
means “eternal vigilance,” but it pays 
if you have a market for all your milk. 
I raised one calf on skim-milk T bought 
at one cent per quart. At three months 
of age the calf had cost just $13 in 
money, while I have raised just as good 
ones that at three months of age had 
cost $1 as near as I could reckon it. If 
the calf should scour take a teacupful of 
milk and boil, putting in about doubh? 
the quantity of black pepper you would 
for an oyster stew for yourself and feed. 
You probably will have to pour down the 
calf’s throat with a spoon. If necessary 
give only this quantity two or three 
times. In most cases once is enough, 
and it is just as good for human beings 
as for calves. a. 
WILL HOGS ROOT IN ORCHARD ? 
At a meeting of the Alton Horticul¬ 
tural Society in September, while the 
subject of orchards and orchard fruits 
was being discussed, the following state¬ 
ment was made. “I have more apples 
than I looked for. The rust is still on 
the fruit, but they have grown large and 
smooth. Let me say, turn hogs into the 
orchard only at nights, for during the 
night hogs never root.” 1 give the 
above statement verbatim, taken from 
the printed report of the meeting. It is 
certainly new to me, but may be worthy 
of triai. JACKsox. 
Illinois. 
R.N.-Y.—We haveseen the samestate- 
ment made before. Our own hogs loot 
more or less in the orchards even when 
supplied with ashes and plenty of food. 
The rooting is worst in the lowest 
ground. It seems to us that the hogs 
are after white grubs and other insects, 
of which they are very fond. As we 
manage the orchards we do not object 
much to this rooting. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Deformed Udder in Heifer. 
I Inive a heifer of extra breeding stock, 
large and line-looking, very hearty eater, 
nice-looking udder, but never gave milk 
Horn the front half. The udder and teats 
look all right and di'aw down flabby when 
Iho milk is drawn from the back half. 
'I'hey wei-e never inflamed; she gives a 
nice moss of milk. Can anything be done 
tor her? 0. s. D. 
Bethel, Vt. 
I am sorry to say that nothing can be 
done for your heifer, and I would advise 
you to dry her off and turn her for beef. 
Swelling on Mare's Hock. 
1 have a four-year-old mare in good con¬ 
dition, which has a swelling on outside of 
hock joint. It came on when running out 
to pasture; when standing leg sw-ells down 
to ankle. Veterinary called it some 
trouble with lymphatic glands, prescribed 
arsenic, but 1 am somewhat afraid to give 
it without further advice. R. G. p. 
Rushville, N. Y. 
I do not think your horse has any 
lymphatic trouble at all. Give that swel¬ 
ling a thorough blistering, and give the 
horse an internal treatment; hyposul¬ 
phite of soda, a teaspoonful night and 
morning dissolved and placed on her 
food. 
Punctured Foot in Horse. 
1 have a horse which stepped on a nail, 
penetrating side of frog about Hi inch 
from front end, striking the bone. I have 
had foot and frog w’ell pared and hole 
rpened, and after two weeks’ treatment 
of syringing with disinfectants and flax¬ 
seed poultices the horse is still very sore 
and lame. A watery kind of discharge 
with a bad odor still issues from foot, and 
the new growth of frog and surrounding 
parts as well as the leg to the hock are 
swollen. I wish to know if anything more 
can be done, oi- if an injury to tbe navi¬ 
cular bone is a permanent disability? 
Cincinnati. O. g. r. c. 
The horse has what is called suppura¬ 
tive necrosis. Probably before you receive 
my answer your horse will be either bet¬ 
ter or dead, perhaps dead, for punctured 
foot has many complications that prove 
fatal. If your horse is in the same con¬ 
dition that he was when you wrote me 
place his foot in a tub of hot water for 
several hours each day for two or three 
weeks; he will eventually make a re¬ 
covery. _ 
Brixk for Mites.—I f Mapes. the hen 
man. would make brine strong enough to 
hold up an egg, and apply hot to his 
chicken houses, perches, nests, etc., about 
twice a year, there would be no more 
mites, and that should be worth dollars to 
him. 
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