1896 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
683 
Some Four-Legged Milkers. 
(continued. 
has been so successful in developing his 
hen-power, that I wondered what attach¬ 
ment he had put on the cows. 
“ Here are our milkers,” he said, as 
he opened the door of a dark shed. 
There stood a group of sleek, fat Hol¬ 
stein calves, ranging in age all the way 
from babies up to ripe veal. 
“So you are breeding Holsteins are 
you ?” 
“ No ; other folks do the breeding and 
we do the feeding. We buy the calves 
as ' bobs’—two or three days old, and 
let them suck the cows. We plan to 
have a calf for each one of our cows 
while she is in milk. These calves do 
all our milking for us. All we do is to 
‘ strip’ after them, and this gives us 
milk enough for ‘ourselves and the cat’. 
A calf’s stomach is a convenient milk 
pail, and saves lots of time.” 
“Does it pay as well as selling the 
milk for two-legged babies ?” 
“ Better. We buy the little calves for, 
say, $1.50 each. They suck a month 
and then bring from $9 to $10. We 
figure that this means nearly three 
cents a quart for the milk.” 
“How many calves will one cow 
fatten in a year ?” 
“On an average, eight—and this, you 
will see, means over $70 a year income 
per cow. Of course, ours is a small 
dairy, and the business might not pay in 
a larger one. We are in a milk district 
where there are plenty of calves, and 
where the stock is usually of large size. 
It would not pay so well to raise Jersey 
calves in this way, for, while they are 
of fine quality, they do not give the 
desired weight.” 
Mr. Mapes makes every edge cut, as 
we shall see when we talk about the 
hens. h. w. c. 
FORCING A BULL CALF. 
I have a Holstein bull calf five weeks old, that 
I wish to use late next spring for service in my 
dairy. How should I feed and care for him in 
order to secure the most growth and vigor in that 
time ? g. 
Michigan. 
I have never owned 
do not know at what 
of that breed can be used for service, or 
how much feed it should have. But I 
presume that it would require much 
more than a Jersey. A Jersey bull can 
be used for service at nine months. In 
winter, we feed the calves milk, good 
hay, ground oats and wheat bran, mixed 
half and half, about one quart night and 
morning. k. l. clarkson. 
If I wished to force a calf so as to get 
as much growth and vigor as possible in 
a given time, I would give it all the warm 
milk it wanted—either let it suck a cow 
or feed it the milk, as preferred—and as 
soon as it will eat, give it some very nice 
clover hay with ground oats, wheat bran 
and cake meal, two pounds each of the 
oats and bran and one of the meal. But 
I think that S. would have better re¬ 
sults as a breeder, if he used a bull a 
little older, and one that was not forced 
along so fast. Calves that grow and 
take on flesh very fast when calves, do 
not make as good breeders, either heifers 
or bulls, as those that have not been 
forced. a. a. cortklyou. 
a Holstein, and 
age a young bull 
We have been more successful in pro¬ 
ducing rapid growth in Holstein-Friesian 
calves by feeding liberally with new 
milk, and also adding, in a separate feed, 
a mixture of wheat bran and ground 
oats, half and half, with plenty of grass 
in the summer, and clover hay, ensilage, 
etc., in the winter. We have frequently 
produced a growth of from 100 to 138 
pounds in a month, on calves from two 
to six months old ; but if the bull is to 
be used for the production of dairy 
stock, we would not recommend any 
such course. We, many years ago, made 
thorough tests of calves for dairy pur¬ 
poses, fed on new milk, grown rapidly, 
and kept fleshy, until they were a year 
old. The results were not satisfactory, 
and eince that time, we have raised all 
our calves, both bulls and heifers, on 
skim-milk, keeping them in a healthy, 
growing condition, but in moderate 
flesh, and the results, by actual tests 
when the heifers came into milk, showed 
a very large per cent in production, in 
favor of the latter method of raising 
dairy stock. We are, therefore, decidedly 
in favor, for dairy purposes, of raising 
calves on a moderate allowance, avoid¬ 
ing high flesh. Even a very rapid growth 
is not the most desirable. 
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Skim-Milk Calves. —W. C. Rockwood, 
in Hoard’s Dairyman, tells of a fine 
Jersey calf that had been stuffed with 
new milk until it was as fat as butter. 
Mr. Rockwood says : 
This is a mistake which is often made by per¬ 
sons who have a few specimens of fine .Terseys or 
other buttermaking breeds. They think that, 
because they are a little extra, they deserve to be 
taken extra care of; and this is true to a certain 
extent, yet not to the extent of pampering. This 
course is decidedly harmful. In the case of this 
calf, the animal would be all the better, In my 
opinion, if fed upon skim-milk, supplemented, 
perhaps, by a little ground oats, bran, or oil 
meal. The fat in the milk puts fat on the frame 
of the calf, and it is not a veal calf we want In 
our Jerseys, but a good, big frame. This is best 
encouraged by feeding upon such foods as are 
deficient in fat-forming elements like those men¬ 
tioned, which will tend to make bone and muscle 
rather than fat. 
Skim-milk fed warm is better than whole milk 
for the development of the heifer calf which is to 
become a cow. Do not waste any sentiment or 
any cream upon her. Simply give her a good 
generous ration of non-fat-forming foods, and 
although she will not look quite so sleek, and 
will, undoubtedly, develop quite a paunch, she 
will be in far better form than the ODe fed like a 
veal. 
As much barm may be done the calf by over¬ 
feeding, as by under-feeding, and the experienced 
person will go to neither extreme. Keep the 
young animals growing and thrifty, and do not 
be ashamed to show them to visitors, even if they 
do get “potbellied”. That is exactly what we 
want, for who wants a cow which has not a big, 
capacious paunch ? Take good care of the calves, 
provide them with shelter and good warm quart¬ 
ers in winter, and feed them skim-milk as long as 
you have it for them, but do not think it necessary 
to feed your pet new milk. 
Devon Cattle and Sheep. — James 
Wood, in the Country Gentleman, gives 
the following reasons why the Devon 
cow has been popular in America: 
She was an important factor in the make up of 
our much-abused, but really excellent, American 
“ native cow.” The original settlers in America 
took with them the stock of the sections from 
which they came. Dutch, Scotch-Irish and Eng¬ 
lish immigrants thus contributed distinct bloods 
which, in the course of the first century, became 
amalgamated into quite a distinct animal. She 
had good lines of ancestry on every hand, and 
was an animal of great excellence. She came 
into disrepute from two causes. The first was a 
just one. The breeding sections from which 
drovers drew their supplies, came to be the back 
mountain districts, where the least attention was 
given to quality, and where great deterioration 
necessarily resulted. The second largely sprang 
from interested breeders of imported stock, who 
made it fashionable to ridicule the native cow. 
Many New England settlers, notably those of 
Connecticut, were from southwestern England, 
and took red Devons with them. From there they 
were scattered in every direction, great numbers 
being taken to the Western Reserve in Ohio. 
Litchfield County, Conn., has retained the breed 
in its distinct characteristics more persistently 
than has any other section of America preserved 
any type of any domestic animal. 
He also refers to the turf fences he 
saw in Devon and the Devon Longwool 
sheep : 
An old Indian remarked that Uncle Sam put¬ 
ting an iron lock upon a leather mail bag, made 
his knife laugh. So these turf fences, when con¬ 
sidered as barriers, seem to make the sheep 
laugh, speaking metaphorically. To keep them 
from jumping, they are chained in couples. 
Leather straps about their necks are joined by a 
chain about three feet in length. The two ani¬ 
mals never will jump together until months of 
experience drive the idea into their dull intel¬ 
lects. Then the pairs are changed, and are 
secure for months more. We saw many hundreds 
thus chained feeding in the fields. As might be 
expected, there is ceaseless pulling in opposite 
directions. Sometimes the stronger quickly gets 
the mastery, and the weaker learns to yield, but 
more often the contest never ends until one of the 
pair is selected for the butcher. Then the sur¬ 
vivor may have me feeling that prompted the 
epitaph found upon an old tombstone in a church¬ 
yard in Cheshire: 
Here lies my wife, no pair in life 
So equal lived as we did; 
Alike we shared perpetual strife. 
Nor knew I rest till she did, 
Rilling Woodchucks. —We have one 
farm—a deep chestnut loam—on which 
woodchucks delight to live, and it keeps 
us constantly “ at it” to keep them un¬ 
der. I have tried all the methods lately 
recommended in The R. N.-Y.; many of 
them I know to be good, and some are 
“good for nothing.” But all are too 
milch trouble. 
I have a way, and have told it so often 
that its repetition seems stale to me ; 
but it seems that there are many who 
have never heard of it, and so for their 
benefit, and because it is so easy and so 
“ dead sure,” I will repeat it. Wood¬ 
chucks are desperately fond of sweets. 
I learned this from a tame one we once 
had, and I made use of this knowledge 
in destroying them. 
Make a lot of molasses or sugar cook¬ 
ies, about the size of silver dollars, and 
make them very sweet. Smear one with 
molasses, dip the coated side in arsenic, 
and put another cooky on top. Drop a 
pail* of these down into a woodchuck 
hole below the reach of dogs or cats, 
and you need not take the trouble of 
filling the hole. The chucks will smell 
the sweet, will eat the cooky, and will 
“ sleep the sleep that knows no waking.” 
It never fails. Arsenic is so very cheap 
that five cents’ worth will kill all the 
“varmints” on 100 acres of badly-in¬ 
fested territory. The trouble is that, in 
a woodchuck country, they “ keep com¬ 
ing'”- J. s. WOODWARD. 
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