1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
RAISING CALVES WITHOUT MILK. 
Hay Tea and Jelly as Substitutes. 
Wit at We Feed For.— The question 
is often asked, can the heifer calf be 
reared into a profitable dairy cow 
without milk? We might answer this 
with a simple yes; with little, if any, 
milk after two weeks of age, and not 
a drop after one month, and will thus 
make a far more profitable cow than 
if allowed all the milk it can consume 
in the early stages of its existence. 
What do we want to do with this little 
dairy animal, and what do we want 
her to do for us when she reaches ma¬ 
turity? Do we want her to convert her 
food into meat, and place a large 
amount of it upon her carcass, or do 
we want her to place it in the milk 
pail and churn for our profit? If the 
latter, we must begin to train and edu¬ 
cate her for her life work the first 
three months of her life. 
Milk vs. Flesh. —If she is allowed 
to have all the good milk she can con¬ 
sume, and in addition is fed on Timo¬ 
thy hay and corn meal, you will so 
educate her to store up fat, that when 
she reaches maturity she will say to 
you, in actions, if not in words, “You 
taught me while a baby to make fat, 
and now I have become a cow I cannot 
help it,” and will use the majority of 
the feed you give her to increase her 
carcass. Every good dairyman knows 
this is always done at the expense of 
the milk flow, and she will be utterly 
worthless as a profitable dairy animal. 
If, on the other hand, we feed them on 
feeds rich in protein, feeds that will 
make muscle and sinew, growth only, 
and not fat, with a considerable 
amount of coarseness, to develop a 
large stomach, to hold a large amount 
of feed to be ground up and assimi¬ 
lated for our profit in after years, we 
shall be starting in the right direction. 
This can be done by those who sell 
all their milk from the farm daily, as 
cheaply as by those who make butter 
and have an abundance of milk, and 
the most profitable animals in our 
dairy are those which have had but 
little milk till they were two weeks 
old, and not a drop after the first 
month. 
Tile Calf’s Gruel. —The proper plan 
is to remove the calf from the dam as 
soon as the milk is fit to use, and give 
it, for the first week (or until it has 
forgotten its mother and has learned 
to drink well) from one to iy 2 quart 
of its mother’s milk, according to size 
of calf, thrice daily, being careful 
never to overfeed it, keeping it a 
little hungry rather than otherwise. 
In a week or 10 days reduce the milk 
and add to it gruel made of wheat 
flour and flaxseed jelly, gradually in¬ 
creasing the gruel, and decreasing the 
milk, until, at three or four weeks of 
age you can dispense with milk entire¬ 
ly, and .the calf will never know when 
it was done. This flaxseed jelly 
is made by boiling whole flaxseed in six 
times its bulk of water over a slow 
fire, until all the water is absorbed, 
and when cool, it will be in a thick 
jelly. Make the gruel by damping 
from two to three tablespoonfuls of 
flour and then scalding it; add one or 
two tablespoonfuls of the jelly, and you 
have a rich gruel, which can be thinned 
to the consistency and temperature of 
new milk, and will be greatly relished 
by the calf. Increase the amount of 
flour and jelly as the calf increases in 
size and age. If one is raising but one 
or two calves, and can conveniently 
make hay tea with which to scald and 
thin this gruel, it will be all the more 
relished by the calf, and will make her 
grow the faster. I would rather have 
this with which to raise a dairy calf 
than the richest milk I ever saw. To 
make it, place some good sweet clover 
hay in a kettle, fill it with cold water, 
and place it on the back of the kitchen 
stove and let it steep all night, and you 
will have a rich tea that will contain 
all the aroma of the clover. This sys¬ 
tem of feeding by being careful not to 
overfeed, will give the calf a tendency 
to eat hay and other feed quite young. 
This it should be encouraged to do by 
giving it free access to good clover hay, 
not Timothy, as it will not eat enough 
of the latter, but with the former will 
develop a large stomach and become 
what we term pot-bellied. We have, 
when we were so unfortunate as to lose 
our clover crop, and had no other hay 
than Timothy, bought clover from our 
more fortunate neighbors especially for 
our calves, and found it to pay us well. 
Dry Feeds. —Shortly after the calf be¬ 
gins to eat hay it will also eat feed if 
placed in a box where it can reach it. 
This should be composed of four pounds 
of wheat bran, four pounds of ground 
oats and two pounds of linseed meal, 
giving the calf all it will eat clean at 
each meal, and after it eats this readily 
the jelly may very largely be left out of 
the gruel; yet it will do the calf no in¬ 
jury to continue with both. At the age 
of three months the gruel can be entire¬ 
ly dispensed with, feeding only on the 
clover hay and protein feeds, or good 
pasture in its season, with pure water to 
drink. Calves fed on this system, par¬ 
ticularly in the Winter, will not present 
a very handsome appearance, for they 
should be pot-bellied, and in Winter, 
from the lack of fat nature places upon 
them long hair to keep them warm, 
which also detracts from their beauty, 
yet every intelligent dairyman knows 
this calf is the kind that will make the 
profitable dairy cow, and will present 
the appearance shown in Fig. 44. 
After reaching the age of a year or 
more this condition will gradually leave 
her, and she will begin to assume the 
shape of the dairy animal, as in Fig. 45, 
showing her at 15 or 16 months of age, 
four months before her life work is to 
begin, with the udder just beginning to 
form. The pot-bellied condition has dis¬ 
appeared, and she has stored up upon 
her system not fat, but flesh and mus¬ 
cle, which she will need to draw on after 
her life work begins. Let this heifer 
begin her work at the age of 20 to 24 
months, feeding her well when not on 
pasture on dairy foods, with no fatten¬ 
ing ration, and one month before she is 
expected to drop her calf, unless upon 
pasture, feed her two quarts per day in 
connection with her coarser foods of hay 
and fodder, of the same mixture of oat, 
bran and linseed recommended for the 
calf, which will distend and develop the 
udder and encourage large capacity for 
milk. She should come into profit the 
shape of a mature cow, wedge-shaped, 
udder developed and ready for work, 
presenting the appearance of Fig. 46, 
showing her two years old after being 
milked four months. Every dairyman 
should know how to handle her to make 
her profitable for years, barring acci¬ 
dents, and when he calls on her for busi¬ 
ness will find her to respond in the pail 
and churn, instead of upon her carcass 
at his expense. 
In raising the bull calf, from which 
you expect to raise dairy cows, raise 
him exactly as this heifer has been 
raised and he will transmit those quali¬ 
ties to his daughters, and these good 
tendencies at the pail will be intensi¬ 
fied. O. L. GILLINGHAM. 
Burlington Co., N. J. 
149 
Calves Without Milk. 
I do not believe that a good calf can 
be raised without milk, and in these 
days, when good cows are so highly 
valued, it seems a piece of the worst 
kind of shortsightedness and misman¬ 
agement to try to produce a first-class 
cow from a calf stunted in the begin¬ 
ning of its life. It may appear like 
economy to take the milk from the 
calf and sell it to the creamery, cheese 
factory or milk station, but it is a poor 
economy. The cows of the future de¬ 
mand that the calves of to-day be well 
nourished. Ten or 12 pounds of new 
milk daily will carry a calf nicely until 
it is 10 days or two weeks old. Then, if 
the milk is made into butter, there is 
skim-milk to feed. Change from whole 
to skim-milk gradually and at the same 
time supply the fat by feeding corn 
meal, making the calf eat it dry. Later 
add some oats, ground preferred, but 
whole if ground ones are not obtainable 
and bran or middlings. If the milk of 
the dairy goes to a cheese factory feed 
whole milk until the calf is at least a 
month old. Then feed sweet whey, not 
the sour stub, which is bailed out at 99 
per cent of the cheese factories. Feed 
in small quantities at first and increase 
gradually while the milk is decreased. 
At the same time feed some grain, com¬ 
posed of linseed meal, bran, middlings or 
oats and a little corn meal. If the milk 
is sold outright from the farm and 
nothing brought back, then keep the 
calf on whole milk until it is old enough 
to thrive on hay, grain and water, and 
see what a fine calf she is! It is a good 
practice in ordinary dairies where the 
milk supply is short to raise only enough 
calves to keep the herd up, and those 
only from the best cows, and give them 
extra care. l. a. 
DROPPED DEAD. 
The man with heart trouble never 
knows when his time may come. When 
he leaves home for work he may never 
return alive. He may drop dead on the 
street, in his pulpit, in his office, over 
his work benen. Heart disease is no 
respecter of persons. The Christian min¬ 
ister is liable the same as anyone else. 
Rev. C. L. Mundell writes: 
"I suffered from that dreadful tired feeling 
and weakness, and in 1893 I lost mr health alto¬ 
gether. I went to one of the best doctors In the 
state and he said I had heart, stomach, liver and 
kidney trouble. His treatment did me no good. 
I tried different kinds of patent medicines but 
got worse all the time. If I walked up hill or a 
little fast it seemed as though my heart would 
jump out. I had almost given up all hope, and 
my money was all gone; was scarcely able to make 
a living. Finally I wrote Dr. Pierce and follow¬ 
ing his advice I purchased at my nearest drug 
store a bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery and a bottle of his * Pleasant Pellets.’ 
This was a year ago and now I am happy to say 
that I am in the enjoyment of perfect nealth. I 
am so glad of my health that I cannot say too 
much. I first return my sincere thanks to Al¬ 
mighty God and the* to Dr. Pierce. 
‘‘I would not do without your * Pellets’ for 
»ne hundred dollars (Sioo.oo) per month. 
" Do not think I am exaggerating. My state¬ 
ment is true and if any douDt it they can writ* 
to Pinegrove, Ohio, wnere I live, and If any 
should think this an assumed name and that 
such a man as C. L. Mundell does not exist, they 
may look in the minutes of Providence Associa¬ 
tion, or in the Baptist Year Book, In the list of 
Elders, and they will find my name.” 
Constipation and biliousness are radi¬ 
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