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RAISING THE DAIRY CALK 
I think it is very important that we 
have good blood to start with, and very 
important that we keep the calf healthy 
and growing. If I had a healthy heifer 
calf whose parents had been carefully 
bred from a good strain of cattle, and 
if I kept her healthy and growing and 
gave her good care, when she was 
grown up I should expect she would 
make a good dairy cow, no matter what 
her color was, or her markings when a 
calf. But then we want to pick out one 
whose color and markings suit us, for 
we would take more pride in keeping 
her growing, and she would sell better 
if we ever cared to sell her. Many 
dairymen can usually pick the best 
cows out of a dairy by looking them 
over, but I don’t think they could pick 
the calves out of a flock that would 
make the best cows. I don’t think we 
look up the pedigree of the calves we 
raise enough, if we are going to have 
a good dairy. Many farmers think if 
they get a nice calf that suits them, 
from a good cow, that is enough. If I 
were going to raise a bull to improve 
my dairy, I should want to look up his 
pedigree and look to the quantity and 
quality of milk his ancestors gave. Many 
calves are carefully raised which never 
make good cows because they did not 
have the right blood to start with, and 
many which have good blood are so 
poorly cared for they never amount to 
much. 
I have had good luck raising calves 
on new milk warm from the cow. I 
usually start them in April or May, 
when milk is cheapest, and feed them 
enough to keep them growing good. I 
give them what good hay they will eat, 
and when about two and a half months 
old I turn them in a good pasture with 
good shade and plenty of good water. 
When they are well on to grass I gradu¬ 
ally reduce their milk ration until I 
think they will do well without it, and 
then drop it entirely. I have some¬ 
times fed them a little dry feed (mostly 
bran), when they would eat it. Per¬ 
haps many farmers have better plans for 
raising calves than mine, and would be 
cheaper, but surely there is nothing 
better than whole milk warm from the 
cow to start them on. If I had skim- 
milk I think I could raise good calves 
on that, after they had a little start on 
whole milk, but as my milk goes to a 
butter and cheese factory I have only 
whey back. Perhaps a little sweet whey 
might be beneficial to calves that had a 
good start, but I never considered it 
worth the trouble of getting it sweet 
and fresh. I think sour whey is poor 
enough to feed with grain to hogs. I 
think a few roots or a little silo corn 
very valuable for feeding young stock 
in Winter. Whatever our plans of rais¬ 
ing calves I think it pays to have good 
blood to begin with and then give them 
a chance. w. c. D. 
Otselic Center, N. Y. 
“A BUSINESS HEN.” 
Home Breeding and Care. 
On the first page is a good picture of 
“Queen Lil,” a white Leghorn which 
made a great egg record. Mr. James 
E. Walter, Jr., who owns this hen, gives 
the following bit of history: 
‘‘Queen Lil” was sired by a cock whose 
dam laid not less than 205 eggs nor more 
than 295 eggs in one year (breeder’s 
claim) ; hatched March 12; brooded by a 
hen ; laid first egg October 25 and made the 
following record in the champion trap nest: 
October, 1908, five; November, 22; Decem¬ 
ber, 23 ; January, 20 ; February, 21; March, 
25 ; April, 23 ; May, 20; .Tune, 23; July, 
22; August, 20; September, four, and 
stopped to moult September 0, 1909. Long¬ 
est period of rest during this time, three 
days; weight of hen, about 3% pounds. 
Eggs were of medium size and good shape. 
We asked Mr. Walter to tell us how 
his hens are kept, and in reply he sends 
the following concise and interesting 
THE 
RURAL. 
NEW-VORKER 
statement. Read what he says about 
“systems” and secrets. 
Just as we have decided that we should 
soon receive from some one who knows that 
silence is golden, a medal for never having 
written a poultry article for publication, 
The 11. N.-Y. asks that we try to give its 
readers some idea how we handled “Queen 
Lil” in order to secure such a splendid 
egg record. First let us say that our 
chickens, all ages, have free range in an 
orchard at all times, except when the 
ground is covered with snow, or when the 
thermometer registers below 10 degrees 
above zero. Our most satisfactory houses 
are 174x24 feet, IV-z feet high in front and 
5% feet at back, facing south; each house 
has two windows, 12 lights, 10x12 glass, 
the sash being hinged. The upper half of 
one window is left open all the Winter 
except when very cold, even then if weather 
is not too severe we open it for a few 
hours every day to let air out. 
We use incubators for hatching and hens 
for brooding. If the broody hen crop in the 
neighborhood is short, wo then use fire- 
less brooders for those that are left mother¬ 
less. If you ask whether the fireless 
brooder is satisfactory we must answer no, 
but if properly handled it will do very 
well until you can find something you like 
better. When the chicks are old enough, 
24 to 48 hours, we give them a small feed 
of commercial chick feed and continue feed¬ 
ing this until they are old enough, say six 
weeks, to begin to take some scratch feed, 
when we gradually change to this and feed 
nothing else until about August 1, when we 
begin to feed mash dry in hoppers made as 
follows: Bran, 100 parts; middlings, 100 
parts; cornmeal, 100 parts. To this we 
add 30 pounds best beef scraps. 'For green 
food in Winter we use cabbage; at other 
times they have plenty. 
About September 1 we put our pullets, 
about 100 to the house, in the houses 
which are about 100 feet apart and keep 
them confined for two or three weeks, when 
they will return to their own quarters with¬ 
out any trouble. At this time we make 
another change in their feed, this time from 
scratch feed to whole corn, wheat and oats, 
using 20 pounds corn, 20 pounds wheat and 
about five pounds oats; mix and feed in 
litter early in the evening enough to last 
them until about noon of the following 
day. We also keep beef scraps in hop¬ 
pers so they can get more of this than is 
in the mash. We feed oyster shells, char¬ 
coal and grit, of course, when necessary, 
but we use very little of this during Spring 
and Summer. We used the champion trap- 
nest for two seasons, and we want to say 
right here we do not believe there is any 
other method that will show positively 
which hen laid the egg. We now propose 
to use- “Queen Lil” as a foundation for 
our future bred-to-lay flock, trap-nesting 
all of her good pullets and breeding from 
those which make good egg records. 
We have only the one breed. Single Comb 
Wtfite Leghorns, and our one aim has been 
the production of fancy eggs for the New 
York market. All of our eggs go to com¬ 
mission men, and are bringing us at present 
54 cents per dozen, netting us about 49 
cents per dozen. We only calculate on a 
profit of one dollar per head net for each 
layer kept, and we have not been disap¬ 
pointed. We have never made $10.41 per 
head from 25 pullets on a piece of ground 
10 inches square. We have no poultry 
secrets to sell you at $1 each, and we are 
out of 10-cent pamphlets which we will 
mail you on receipt of the low price of 
50 cents. We make our livirng cleaning 
droppings boards, carrying water and mix¬ 
ing mash, and when we are so lucky as to 
get a case of eggs rolling them nearly a 
mile to the station on a wheelbarrow. We 
have rubbed up against experience in this 
business until our hands are full of corns— 
and some claims make us tired. 
Virginia. jasies e. Walter, jo. 
Rape as Pasture.— It is not advisable 
to permit milch cows to pasture regularly 
in a field that contains largely Dwarf Essex 
rape; first, because the milk obtained 
would no doubt be tainted, especially if the 
cows are permitted to eat all their appe¬ 
tites crave; in the second place the rape 
forage is even more palatable if it is cut 
and fed in conjunction with mangel wur- 
zels. In case the rape is nastured the 
animals should only be permitted to graze 
the field once daily, say immediately after 
being milked in the morning, for an h,our, 
and in case the forage is cut and fed as a 
soiling crop it should be fed only imme¬ 
diately after milking, and then not in too 
large quantities. A small amount of rape 
fed in conjunction with silage at this time 
of the year will not in my judgment taint 
the milk : and as in the case with turnips, 
they should be fed rather sparingly, more 
perhaps as an appetizer rather than as a 
source of supply of succulence. The rape 
makes most excellent pasture for swine, and 
at the College Farm last year we planted 
on a quarter of an acre a mixture of Can¬ 
ada field peas, oats, barley and rape, and 
despite the fact that we pastured a dozen 
brood sows as well as some young stock 
in this field during the entire season, there 
was excellent forage plowed under in early 
August, at which time the field was seeded 
with Alfalfa. f. c. minkler. 
N. J. Experiment Station. 
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