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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 23, 
and foiir- 
the proper 
J. D. 
RAISING A CALF. 
We have 36 three-months 
months-old ealves. What Is 
feed for them, and how much. 
West Virginia. 
As I have never seen those calves, and 
do not know their breed or condition, I 
can prescribe for them only in a gen¬ 
eral way. This calf-feeding question 
has been coming up for years, and wiFl 
probably continue to do so. Therefore 
perhaps I might as well tell how we 
raise our calves from birth to a year 
old. In the first place do not start to 
raise a calf that is not worth raising. 
By that I mean one that is unlikely to 
be worth as a yearling what it will cost 
to raise it in a proper manner. It 
never pays to raise a scrub calf in a 
scrub manner, because that will make it 
even more “scrubby” than its parents. 
It is a great deal better to raise one 
good heifer with liberal feed than to 
raise two or three that will ultimately 
develop into “boarders” in the dairy. 
Our calves are all purebred Jerseys, and 
are very small at birth, and should be 
fed in proportion to their size. Our 
great dairy friend of Ohio, John Gould, 
used to say that his only objection to 
the Jersey was that he had to be so care¬ 
ful to keep the cat from catching the 
young calves. But since we have found 
how to feed them, we do not object to 
their small size. One great thing in 
their favor is that the cow very rarely 
has anv trouble in giving birth to the 
calf, which is not the case with some of 
the other breeds. We take the calf 
away from the cow at once, not allow¬ 
ing it to suck at all, for as a general 
tiling the milk is not only too rich, but 
the calf will take so much that it will 
be made sick right at the start. We 
take from one to two quarts of the 
mother’s milk and add half as much 
warm water and a teaspoonful of blood 
meal. Be sure to add the blood meal 
to the first feed, for its smell will cause 
the calf to refuse its feed if added later 
on. Besides, calves fed the blood meal 
rarely “scour.” After a few days we 
gradually reduce the whole milk and re¬ 
place it and the water with skim- 
milk fresh from the separator. Now 
some one will say right here, “I sell my 
milk, and cannot afford to feed milk. 
What is the best substitute for milk? 
I have never found that “best substi¬ 
tute,” and would advise under these 
conditions to either kill the calf at the 
start or hire some one back in the coun¬ 
try to raise it for you. I feed part 
whole milk until the calf is six weeks 
old, or in some cases even longer. By 
that time the calf will eat dry grain 
from a box within reach, and will also 
begin to eat a little fine hay. I do not 
mix grain of any kind with the milk, 
for this is a source of indigestion and 
bowel trouble generally. I feed the 
skim-milk just as long as I have it for 
them, the longer the better, and gradu¬ 
ally add water to the milk until I get 
them to drinking clear water. Do not 
make any sudden changes. 
For grain, ground oats are as good 
as anything, but they are both scarce 
and expensive. Good sweet wheat 
bran with a handful of cornmeal is all 
right, and a little linseed meal is splen¬ 
did. But feed sparingly of this, for it is 
rich, and another source of indigestion 
if used too freely. We used to raise 
calves on a gruel of “calf meal” and a 
very little milk, also on a gruel of oil 
meal and fine middlings. But we have 
given up the practice, and think it best 
to raise only the number of calves and 
pigs that we can furnish with plenty 
of skim-milk. j. grant morse. 
Feeding Buckwheat, —In regard 1o 
buckwheat, T have always fattened hogs on 
it: killed two this Fall, weight 200 pounds 
apiece. I have four pigs that came Sep¬ 
tember 1, will weigh 100 pounds apiece to¬ 
day : they have had buckwheat and milk. 
I always use buckwheat straw to bed calves 
and hogs. I never had any trouble from it. 
Sheep will eat the straw if given one feed 
a day of it. G. E. G. 
, Xe’wfane, Vt,. s 
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PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
The “Asian Sporting Newspaper.” pub-1 
lished at Calcutta, prints the following want I 
advertisement which seems somewhat 
unique in this country where hunting is on 
less strenuous lines: 
Wanted : Elephants. Tigers and Rhino - 
(■crones. Wm. Jamraeh, London. 
Mr. Jamraeh is a dealer in supplies for 
menageries. 
Dried Eggs.—‘‘C an you inform me how 
they dry fresh eggs as are now used in our 
American navy?” j. t. 
The moisture is expelled from the eggs 
by a process similar to the desiccation of 
cocoanut or fruits. The resulting product 
contains all the nourishing features of the 
egg, but is somewhat less profitable. It is* 
understood that dried eggs are used to some 
extent by bakers, but the bakers with whom 
I have talked bad gone back to liquid eggs 
as more satisfactory. The desiccated egg 
does not lighten bakery goods like a beaten 
fresh egg. Their main use appears to be in 
places where fresh eggs are not available. 
Hothouse Lambs are arriving in fair 
quantity hut run a little too light, some 
under 30 pounds and down to 24. The 
range of price is wide, $3 to $11 per head. 
It would have paid to keep many of these 
lambs two or three weeks longer. They 
ought to weigh over 30 pounds; 33 pounds 
makes a very nice Iamb if well propor¬ 
tioned otherwise, but it is hard to get this 
weight so early in the season. It pays to 
brush the dirt and tag locks from the wool, 
as this adds so much to the appearance. 
Damaged Apples. —The writer lias sev¬ 
eral times recently been asked to examine 
shipments of apples that were more or less 
damaged by going slack in transit. In 
some cases tho loss was heavy. Very bard 
or tough skinned apples will stand consid¬ 
erable shaking in the barrel, hut most of the 
choice varieties are seriously damaged by it. 
It seems that few people other than pro- [ 
fessional packers realize how important it 
is to get the barrels as full as possible. The 
barrel seems full and is headed up with 
considerable force, but before it gets half 
way to market the apples are rattling 
around. For special purposes, such as 
shipment across the ocean, every apple 
should be put into the barrel by hand, with 
a sort of wedging motion, which can be 
learned only by experience. It is a ques¬ 
tion whether such extreme care willl pay 
in barreling apples intended for domestic 
markets, but I believe it might be used to 
advantage with much of the better fruit. 
In the case of the damaged apples first 
mentioned 10 cents worth of additional 
work per barrel in packing would have 
netted 40 or 50 cents in the price re¬ 
ceived. Another point to be considered is 
shrinkage. Apples barreled in the Fall and 
kept in cellar or barn for two months are 
likely to become slack from shrinkage unless 
very tightly packed. In such cases every 
barrel should in* tested before shipping, and 
any that rattle, unheaded and repacked. 
This will pay well. The chief fault with 
most packers is that they wait until the 
barrel is half full at least before shaking 
down. The time to commence this is as 
soon as half a bushel of fruit is in the 
barrel, and the shaking must he kept up 
persistently until the barrel is full. The 
market outlook for apples is not bright. 
Trade is dull and the top prices quoted rep¬ 
resent exceptional rather than general sales. 
w. w. H. 
MILK CANS ROBi 
YOU 
Look ’through a microscope at milk / 
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You'll see this web growing thicker 
and thicker until it forms solid curd. , 
How c an you expect all the cream to 
rise through that? It can’t. This] 
ifl 
caseine web catches a third to half the 
cream. You stand that loss just as 
long as you use paDS or cans for they 
haven’t enough skimming force to 
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