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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER; 
January 10 
RAISING A CALF WITHOUT MILK. 
Hay Tea. —The best and natural way 
to raise a good calf is with milk. Some 
consider that it must be necessarily new 
or whole milk, but practice proves that 
to be a mistake, as we see most excel¬ 
lent calves grown with skim-milk alone, 
without having whole milk given but a 
few times after being dropped. We 
would, of course, prefer to have enough 
milk to use in starting a calf to drink, 
but that does not even cut off a chance 
of rearing bossy by other resources. 
Clover hay cut and cured in bloom, 
without injury, is a well-balanced ra¬ 
tion for a milch cow, but a little wide 
for a young calf. It can be “fixed” by 
making a tea or decoction by steeping 
the clover hay in water over a slow fire, 
using one gallon of the strained tea, 
adding at first a heaping tablespoonful 
of pure ground linseed meal, after mak¬ 
ing it into a cooked gelatine; feed this 
twice each day. If possible use one 
quart of milk at first to fool the calf 
into drinking. In a short time take out 
only the coarse straw from the tea, and 
leave tops and leaves for the calf to nip 
at, and it will very soon be taught to 
eat hay, after which a little should be 
kept near it at all times. We would 
suggest it be taught to eat some grain 
quite early. If a heifer intended for the 
dairy, that grain ration should be made 
up largely from nitrogenous materials, 
such as bran, oats and oil meal, with a 
very small quantity of whole corn. If 
for beef purposes, then increase the 
width of ration by using more corn 
gradually as the calf grows. 
We have known a gruel made from 
clover tea and a handful of barley meal 
to work well as a drink for young 
calves, and would recommend it to 
those who would desire to rear calves 
without milk. The liquor from pearl 
barley makes an excellent substitute, or 
rather a modifier, for cows’ milk for 
infants, as it is exceedingly nutritious, 
containing an excellent quality of pro¬ 
tein, and the liquor from steeped barley 
would, without doubt, work well in the 
absence of other albuminous materials. 
So much will depend on the person who 
handles both the feed and calves, that 
we must insist that where success is 
expected the attendant must be one of 
excellent judgment, and do his work 
punctually, and not irregularly, in both 
times and quantities. Linseed meal is 
an excellent regulator of the bowels, but 
in case of scours a tablespoonful of 
flour added in the drink will check it in 
nearly all cases; if not, use an egg raw. 
Vigilance is the price of success always, 
in raising calves. geo. e. scott. 
Ohio. 
Killed a Calf. —Several years ago, 
at another experiment station, I at¬ 
tempted to raise two calves on a substi¬ 
tute for milk. This was composed of 
hay tea and grain in the form of a 
gruel. The calves were very young 
when the experiment began, being two 
or three weeks old, and my experience 
was very unsatisfactory. One calf died 
as a result of the trial, while the other 
one was injuriously affected. Notwith¬ 
standing my experience, from time to 
time one hears of cases where calves 
have been reared without milk. Stew¬ 
art, in his work on feeding animals, re¬ 
ports on an experiment covering 60 
days, where hay tea was fed to five 
calves, and where remarkable results 
were secured; the animals gaining a 
little over two pounds per day per head. 
These calves were fed two gallons of 
hay tea, plus one-fourth pound of flax 
seed, and the same amount of wheat 
middlings per head. It seems hardly 
credible that such results can be se¬ 
cured from very young calves, for that 
is a very good growth where milk is 
fed. No doubt there are extenuating 
circumstances in the attempt to raise 
calves without milk, but I do not be¬ 
lieve that in general practice satisfac¬ 
tory results can be obtained. Up to at 
least three months of age, the calf 
should have some milk in its diet. 
Indiana Exp. Station. c. s. plumb. 
The English Method. — Raising 
calves without milk is generally re¬ 
garded as a difficult task, and has not 
been extensively practiced in any of the 
western agricultural States. In some 
localities, however, near city markets, it 
is sometimes desirable to dispose of all 
of the milk, and it then becomes neces¬ 
sary to find a substitute for calf raising. 
I made some interesting observations on 
this subject in England last Summer. 
Many of the farmers within a radius of 
100 miles, or even more, of London, ship 
all their milk to the city dealers twice 
a day, and on some of these farms from 
60 to 100 calves will be raised annually. 
These calves never have any milk after 
they are two or three weeks old. They 
are given new milk, fresh from the cow, 
until they are about two weeks old, 
when this is gradually replaced by ex¬ 
tract of hay, or what is commonly 
known as hay tea, made by boiling a 
large kettleful of hay and water for sev¬ 
eral hours. This is then allowed to 
stand for about 12 hours, and the water 
in which the hay has been boiled is 
drawn off, and to this is added oil meal, 
or “ground cake,” as it is termed over 
there. By the time the calves are three 
weeks old the milk is usually completely 
replaced by the hay tea and ground 
cake. This furnishes a sort of gruel 
that is quite nutritious, and answers all 
the needs of the growing calf in a satis¬ 
factory degree. Much better calves are 
grown by this process than are ordin¬ 
arily produced in this country on cream¬ 
ery separator milk, and I think the re¬ 
sults are nearly, if not quite, equal to 
the best results obtained from separator 
milk fed warm and fresh from the hand 
separator, and supplemented with a 
suitable grain ration. There seemed to 
be no difficulty whatever in growing 
good calves without milk by this 
method. c. f. cubtiss. 
Iowa Experiment Station. 
SILO AND MILK CAN. 
For years there has been a contro¬ 
versy between farmers and condensed 
milk factories over the quality of milk 
from cows fed on silage. Most factories 
refuse to receive milk from dairies 
where silage is fed, and this has eaused 
hardship to farmers, who are deprived 
of this cheap and useful feed. The Illi¬ 
nois Agricultural College tried to settle 
the matter, as this note from a local 
paper will show: 
“Samples of milk taken from the cows 
on the agricultural farm were sent, first 
to a dozen different professors of the 
college, then to a number of students, 
and later on to a number of women, and 
finally to several milk experts. In ad¬ 
dition samples were sent to hotels in 
Chicago and Springfield. In each case 
both silage and nonsilage milk was sent, 
and in no case was the object of the 
undertaking disclosed. In each case a 
person was asked which sample was 
preferred, and whether there was any 
objection to the milk of a certain desig¬ 
nation, but which was the silage prod¬ 
uct. The result of the test, which 
covered several weeks, was that 118 
tests favored the silage milk, 65 the 
nonsilage, and 37 had no choice. To 360 
samples of silage milk there were no 
objections. The tests were double in 
character, milk from the cows being 
taken both before and after feeding the 
silage. 
“Prof. W. J. Fraser, under whose di¬ 
rection the tests were made, says that 
there can be no reasonable objection to 
silage as a feed if the feeding is prop¬ 
erly done. The condenser people claim 
that milk from cows fed on silage takes 
on an undesirable taste. This, the pro¬ 
fessors claim, comes from decayed si¬ 
lage, when the milk is exposed to its 
odor, and if care is taken not to permit 
any feed of the kind to reach the barn 
there will be no trouble.” 
“Oleo” Rogues.—It is a favorite trick 
of the oleo dealers to bring their oleo 
into New lork from Jersey Cit;*. They 
drive in wagons under the guise of ex¬ 
pressmen, and deliver their goods to 
New York consumers. Jersey City is 
directly across the Hudson River from 
New York. Wagons are loaded there 
and driven on the ferries and carried 
across. There is heavy commerce both 
ways, and hence, very hard for the in¬ 
spectors to know when oleo is thus de¬ 
livered. A man named James J. Corbett 
was recently arrested for doing this 
slippery business. He was not the 
noted prize-fighter Dearing that name, 
although it may be questioned by some 
whether the pugilist is not engaged in 
a more legitimate Dusiness than was 
the fraud who tried to sneak into this 
city with his greasy load. Every now 
and then the agents of the Agricultural 
Department succeed in capturing one of 
these rogues. Those men who stand up 
and shed tears over the injustice to 
those dear oleo people would do well to 
come to this city and see how this 
wretched business is conducted. They 
might change their minds, and then 
again, they might not, for some minds 
never change. 
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