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WISCONSIN AND HOLSTEIN CATTLE. 
Has the Badger State done more to 
make the Holstein tribe of dairy cattle 
famous in many countries than has any 
other section of this nation? A number 
of events recently have occurred that 
seem to show the great dairy State has 
set the pace in this respect. In the first 
place the registry office of the Holstein 
Association is located in this State, in 
Delavan, and has been for some years. 
Quite recently it was found necessary 
to increase office space, and in a new 
modern building that has been contracted 
the registry office will have an entire 
floor, 32 feet wide and 54 feet deep. By 
this time it requires a force of 20 clerks 
to handle the advanced registrations that 
come in from almost every section of the 
United States. Through this office a 
deal of the prize money is paid, which 
with the printing expense amounts to 
something like $40,000 a year. The post¬ 
age alone amounts to over $2,000. 
In the big milk and cream selling mar¬ 
kets it is known that the Holstein tribe 
oftener is in the mouths of milk dealers 
and consumers than perhaps any one 
other tribe. It is known that the IIol- 
steins, either purebred or high-class 
grades, largely form the herds in Wis¬ 
consin whence comes an immense daily 
supply. Wisconsin gave the white and 
black animal a tremendous boom when it 
chronicled the wonderful record of Colan- 
tha 4th’s Johanna, and then right on 
the heels of the accomplishment Senator 
Stephenson, of Wisconsin, sent to the 
White House under the Taft Adminis¬ 
tration the Holstein cow Pauline Wayne. 
That in itself was a traveling advertise¬ 
ment for the big creatures of the dairy 
world. 
It is but a few months since a Wis¬ 
consin breeder sent a fine Holstein sire 
and three heifers to the government of 
New Zealand, and this served as another 
distinguishing mark emanating from the 
great Badger commonwealth. 
More local but deeply interesting 
events have taken place in Wisconsin. 
On an island that forms a part of Door 
County a Wisconsin man has planned 
to found a pure Holstein dairy. F. A. 
Dennett is the name of this dairyman 
and he purposes to head his herd with a 
sire valued at a half thousand dollars. 
About 10 purebred heifers will be taken 
to the island shortly and this is expected 
to form the start of one of the finest 
dairy herds in the State. 
Peter Reiss, of Sheboygan, who is 
planning an extensive dairy farm near 
the falls, contemplates making use of 
SO head of the white and black tribe. 
Holstein breeders of Wisconsin who 
have shown stock at the International 
Exposition and at the State fairs give 
exceedingly interesting stories of the 
spread of this breed to many sections of 
the United States, a gx-eat deal of it go¬ 
ing to new sections, and v/hen one takes 
into consideration all of the Winconsin 
influences that have contributed to the 
use of this gi'eat daii’y tribe, it is shown 
that the State stands in the very fore¬ 
front of the entire movement. 
J. L. GRAFF. 
FEEDING DAIRY CALVES. 
What would be a good ration for 
calves intended for dairy purposes? I 
have skim-milk, oil meal, wheat bran, 
wheat middlings, corn, oats, rye and 
wheat. For roughage I have corn stover, 
mixed clover, and Timothy hay. Should 
the ration be balanced? If so what is 
the nutritive ratio for such calves? I 
have endeavored to work out a balanced 
ration but could find no ratio. I notice 
that calves like corncob meal better than 
any other grain feed. Could this be used 
as the larger part of the grain feed? 
What is the reason for the calves becom¬ 
ing what is called pot-bellied? What 
is a cui'e for scours? a. r. 
It will depend somewhat on the breed 
of cattle as to the food for the firct 
month of the calf’s life. If it is a Hol¬ 
stein I would feed it the mother’s milk 
direct from the cow. If it is a Jersey 
or Guernsey, I would reduce the milk 
with part warm water to bring it down 
to something like three per cent milk. It 
is better to use water instead of skim- 
milk to reduce the whole milk, because 
the other solids usually follow the fat 
closely in rich milk, and therefore, if 
skim-milk were added, we would have too 
much protein, which would derange the 
digestive system just as quickly as too 
much fat. 
THE RURAL 
After the calf is about a month old, I 
would begin to substitute skim-milk for 
the whole milk, a little at first, but in 
a couple of weeks get her onto all skim- 
milk. When we begin substituting the 
skim-milk, we begin to place a little dry 
grain before the calf. This grain may 
consist of one part of wheat bran, one 
of ground oats and one of cornmeal. To 
this add a tablespoonful of oil meal at 
each feed. The calf may have all she 
will eat of this grain ration fed dry, but 
it is poor practice to place grain in the 
milk for the calf. It is decidedly better 
for them to eat it dry, so that the digest¬ 
ive juices of the mouth and stomach may 
have a chance to act. 
The clover and Timothy hay should be 
within reach of the calf all the while, 
but I think corn stover would be of very 
little value the first six months of the 
calf’s life. 
I hardly think that I would feed the 
calves on corncob meal. There is little 
good in a corncob but the ash. This can 
much better be supplied by the wheat 
bran, and I can see no use in taxing 
the little stomach with grinding up in¬ 
digestible material. In fact, that is just 
what makes the calves “pot-bellied”— 
filling them too full of stuff that contains 
so little noui-ishment that they have to 
gorge themselves to live. On the other 
hand, it is not best to x-aise the calves 
on a too concentrated feed. The dairy 
cow ought to be able to get a good share 
of her food in the form of l’oughage to 
make her a pi’ofitable animal, and to do 
this she must of course have a good stor¬ 
age capacity. My rule is to give the 
calf enough grain to keep her in good 
flesh and fine thrifty condition, after 
which give her all the roughage she will 
eat j. g. M. 
NEW-YORKER 
Power for Separator. 
Can a 750-pound capacity cream sep¬ 
arator be operated successfully by a one- 
cylinder gasoline engine? My idea is 
that the motion is not steady efiough. 
F. J. Q. 
A sepai'ator of 750 pounds capacity or 
one of any other size can be successfully 
operated by a one-cylinder gasoline en¬ 
gine. It is better to belt from the engine 
to an intermediate or line shaft and from 
that to the separator. A governor pulley 
is sometimes used on the line shaft, belt¬ 
ing from this to the separator pulley. If 
the governor pulley or some similar de¬ 
vice is not used the belt should be shifted 
from the loose to the tight pulley on the 
sepai’ator gradually. If the separator is 
not fitted with a loose pulley, it should 
be brought to speed by hand and the 
belt put on while running. Sepai’ator 
manufacturers make various attachments 
for their separators to simplify running 
with a gasoline engine. It would be ad¬ 
visable to correspond with them. The en¬ 
gine should be set in a separate room and 
the exhaust piped out of the building. 
Milk, cream, butter or salt will absorb 
gasoline odors very readily. 
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