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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 14 
\LIVE STOCK\ 
AND DAIRY. 
THE SKIM-MILK CALF. 
WHAT FAT WITH THE SKIM-MILK ? 
I use tlie gravity system with deep 
pails in ice water in Summer, and run¬ 
ning water in Winter. My calves are 
fed new milk for about two weeks, then 
skim-milk warmed, all they will readily 
digest. They have all the hay they will 
eat, and as soon as they will eat bran, 
they have all the bran they will eat, up 
to four quarts a day. They are fed in 
this way until they are about six months 
old. They do not get fat, but grow large 
and strong, and always have a thrifty 
look. c. M. WINSLOW. 
Vermont. 
I have raised all my calves for the past 
five years, on separator skim-milk. I 
take the calves from the dams when four 
days old, and then give them nothing 
but skim-milk after they are two weeks 
old ; then, when old enough, I stir in a 
little white middlings, until about four 
weeks old, then wheat middlings and 
old-process oil meal. I can show you 
some of the finest calves this Spring you 
would want to look at. I have also fed 
the milk to pigs by adding middlings 
and coarse bran, mixed half and half, 
and it does first-rate. Hut one can't 
raise good calves or pigs on skim-milk 
from the separator alone ; we must feed 
oil meal, middlings and bran to make a 
success of it. I have had Jersey bull 
calves that weighed from 400 to 500 
pounds at six months old, fed this way, 
and that is pretty fair for them. I should 
think that this is the cheapest calf ration 
that can be fed for good results. 
Pennsylvania, joiis c. mcclintock. 
For four years, we have been using 
milk warm from a IT. S. separator, being 
particular not to let the temperature get 
down to a point where it will cause 
scours. We have been very successful, 
and think that our calves so raised will 
compare favorably with those by any 
other process, for dairy purposes. Of 
course, we do not get great big, beefy 
animals like a certain well-known Penn¬ 
sylvania breeder who feeds the whole 
milk until they are almost a year old. 
We have a box in the calf stalls in which 
we keep a mixture of ground oats, bran, 
and some oil meal, and if necessary, add 
a little corn meal to.it. In connection 
with the grain, we try to keep some 
good clover hay in the rack all the time, 
so that when they are so inclined, they 
can pick at it. The only trouble that 
we find in feeding our skim-milk is that, 
in our coldest weather, we sometimes 
have to heat it before feeding it, as the 
separator reduces the temperature very 
considerably, and it should not be per¬ 
mitted to stand for any time. This is a 
point that the “ hands ” are sometimes a 
little careless about, and when they are 
careless, it it almost an invariable con¬ 
sequence that we have one or more sick 
calves. We use a calf feeder until the 
calves have considerable age, and com¬ 
mence to spoil the nipple with their 
teeth, when we have to feed them from 
a bucket. The most satisfactory use of 
skim-milk that we have been able to 
demonstrate was with pigs, feeding them 
a slop of skim-milk, bran and oil meal, 
and believe that, in that way, the sweet¬ 
est, cleanest and best lean pork can be 
made. R - F- shannon, 
Pennsylvania. 
I have used milk from the separator 
only for a short time in feeding calves. 
To be brief, I did not like it because the 
calves did not do well on it. My calves 
had been fed on skim-milk from the 
Cooley cans, and when the change came 
to separator milk, the calves knew the 
difference at once. They began to scour, 
and after a few days, they refused the 
milk ; hence I discarded the separator, 
and put the Cooley creamer in use again. 
If butter were my only aim, 1 would use 
the separator, but for raising calves, I 
prefer the Cooley milk. My method is 
to feed the young calf the milk from the 
mother for several days, then I change to 
the skim-milk, which is warmed to the 
temperature of new milk to which is 
added porridge composed of one teaspoon¬ 
ful of old-process oil meal mixed with 
one tablespoonful of Daisy flour. The 
oil meal and flour are mixed and thor¬ 
oughly scalded, then stirred into the 
milk. This mixture is increased as the 
calf grows older, though care must be 
observed not to use too much of the oil 
meal, lest the calves be made to scour. 
After the second month. I get them to 
take a few licks of bran, and afterwards, 
I substitute the bran for the oil meal 
and Daisy flour. I never let a calf go to 
grass the first summer, but keep it in the 
barn, giving a chance two or three times 
a week for a run in the barnyard. When 
a month old, I get the calf to eat a little 
hay, which is increased as its wants de¬ 
mand. D. M. CAMPBELL. 
New York. 
I raise all my calves on skim-milk after 
they are a month old. Our cream is all 
raised by the cold-water process, and 
shot-gun cans, so I have had no experi¬ 
ence with separator milk ; but I don’t 
imagine that there is much difference in 
the quality of the milk, as I test my 
skim-milk occasionally, and never find 
more than a trace of fat. Of course, the 
milk from the cold-water process must 
be always warmed before feeding, as 
there is no doubt that most of the indi¬ 
gestion and scours in calves is caused by 
feeding cold milk when young. The 
most profitable grain food that I know 
of for feeding with skim-milk is old- 
process oil cake meal; we scald the meal 
and mix with the milk. It never should 
be mixed with the milk without scald¬ 
ing ; better feed it dry by itself. Chopped 
oats and bran we also use pretty largely, 
always fed dry. I know of no more profit¬ 
able way of using skim-milk than by 
feeding it to good, thrifty, well-bred 
calves, or young pigs. Our calves are 
all raised for the dairy, consequently 
we feed them on the nitrogenous foods, 
and avoid foods that have a tendency to 
fatten, such as corn meal. 
Canada. R. s. stevenson. 
PROFIT IN PIGS. 
A neighbor purchased two last Spring, 
put them in a small pen with only a few 
boards in the corner for a cover, fed them 
no green feed, and made a clear 100 per 
cent profit in six months. He fed them 
the skim-milk from one cow, and corn 
meal, a little at first, and increasing to 
the last, when they consumed about 
nine quarts per day. It would seem as 
though better results would have been 
obtained if wheat middlings had been 
used in the start to make growth, and 
some green feed given for health ; but it 
is facts, not theories, I am giving, and 
candor compels me to say that they 
were hard to beat. The manure is con¬ 
sidered equal in value to the cost of 
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Coughs, hoarseness, pain or soreness of the Lungs 
and Throat, tightness about the chest, etc., are often 
mistaken for Consumption, when they are in reality 
caused by Bronchitis. This disease, in its early 
stages, can always be cured with Jayne’s Expec¬ 
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J. F. //., Cambridge, Mass. — A sprain such as yon 
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225 purebred Guernseys of the best American 
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AT FARMERS’ PRICES! 
Two Registered Jersey Bull Calves 
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