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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 8, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
RAISING CALVES WITHOUT SKIM-MILK. 
N those regions where market milk is 
produced, it is usually more profit¬ 
able to sell it to a shipping station, than 
to dispose of it in any other way, unless 
it can be retailed. Even when otherwise 
disposed of in the Summer it is frequent¬ 
ly shipped in the Winter. In such sec¬ 
tions, therefore, the dairyman seldom has 
skim-milk when he wants it to raise 
calves. The result of this condition was, 
for a long time, to discourage the raising 
of calves in these sections. Until recent¬ 
ly the price of cows was low anyway, 
and a good judge could pick out good 
cows as cheap as he could raise them. 
Conditions have now changed. Good 
grade cows now sell at from $75 to $100 
in this neighborhood, yearlings at $25 or 
$30 and so on. The result has been so 
to stimulate the raising of calves, that it 
method is uniformly successful, as are 
others who practice the same methods. 
I have known him to sell calves that he 
started to raise, for veal at top notch 
prices. For grain, I fed straight bran 
last year. This year I am feeding a mix¬ 
ture of bran and ground oats, 100 pounds 
each, and old process oil meal 40 pounds. 
Bran is valuable for its bone making ma¬ 
terials. Red dog and flour middlings are 
also good. Fall calves raised by this 
method, are ready to go out to grass in 
the Spring, and require no more atten¬ 
tion except an occasional salting as long 
as the pasture is good. If the grass gets 
short they should receive additional feed 
of some kind, as it is poor policy to let 
them stop growing at any time. There 
are two precautions to be observed in 
starting calves by any method: First, 
absolute cleanliness of utensils, and sec¬ 
ond. care in weighing or measuring out the 
rations. If the ration is suddenly in¬ 
creased, the calf is likely to start scour¬ 
DUTCII BELTED BULL. 
is now difficult to buy a good heifer calf 
to raise. 
As there is no skim-milk to be had, 
there have been numerous letters to the 
farm papers, inquiring as to methods of 
raising calves on substitutes. I have 
been through a good many methods, and 
have settled on one as satisfactory. As 
I have never seen this method given in 
any book, bulletin or article, I will give 
it here. The first calf I ever raised, was 
raised on the waste from the manufacture 
of powdered or dried milk, which is sim¬ 
ply dried skim-milk. This method was 
successful, but owing to improved pro¬ 
cesses, there is now none of this waste to 
be had, and the dried milk itself is too 
expensive to use. 
The next thing I tried was commercial 
calf meal. I had fair success with the 
two kinds I used, but they are expensive, 
and a great bother to prepare properly, 
and the results left considerable to be 
desired. One of these calf meals is a 
good deal better than the other, but a 
mixture of red dog, ground oats, w'ith the 
hulls screened out, or flour middlings, and 
c4d process oil meal, is still better and 
much cheaper. These calf meals are 
scalded and fed in the form of a gruel. 
ing, which is always a setback. If it is 
desired to feed skim-milk, it should be 
first substituted for the water, and then 
gradually for the whole milk. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. A. n. de graff. 
FEEDING CALVES SOUR MILK. 
HE U. S. Department of Agriculture 
fed sour milk to 22 calves, and 
claims that in no case did it cause diges¬ 
tive disturbance, even when the calves 
were only a few days old, and asserts that 
the common idea that sour milk causes 
scours, is quite unfounded. It seems 
saucy to contradict such high authority, 
but it should be done. The common idea 
is true as the gospel. The Department of 
Agriculture is amazingly wrong. For 50 
years I have taught a dozen calves, every 
year, to drink milk, and fed them per¬ 
sonally afterwards with milk until they 
were old enough to do without it. A 
calf only a few days old will not drink 
sour milk, and ought not to drink it if 
it would. When three weeks old a small 
quantity—say two quarts at a feed—can 
be safely given continuously without 
fetching on the scours. Even sweet skim- 
milk will cause the scours if fed all they 
will drink. About five quarts at a mess, 1 
is as much as should be given. They 
should have all the water they will drink, 
especially after they have learned to eat 
wheat middlings, and nibble hay. Fresh 
buttermilk is relished by calves, and is 
safer to feed than sour skim-milk. The 
Department did not tell us how much 
sour milk was fed to each calf; how many 
times a day the calves were fed; and 
how long the experiment was continued. 
Pennsylvania. .t. w. ingiiam. i 
THE DUTCH BELTED BREED. 
T HE picture shows a Dutch Belted bull 
of good conformation. This breed 
was originated in Holland about 250 
years ago, the peculiar belt about the 
body being the result of scientific breed¬ 
ing. The cows weigh from 000 to 1,250 
pounds, and bulls from 1,500 to 2,000. 
In addition to their beauty the Dutch 
Belted cattle are creditable dairy and 
beef producers. 
WISCONSIN COW-TESTING ASSOCIATION. 
Y OU ask the proportion of unprofitable 
cows in the average herd. That 
would be a very difficult thing to say, un¬ 
less I was finishing the year, as this 
would enable me to say more clearly the 
exact number. But I do think without 
exaggerating a bit, out of the 4S5 cows in 
my association that two out of every 20 
are not worth the feed and care they re¬ 
ceive. and this association is classed as 
having some very fine herds, as this is 
its second year of work. The association 
has a large variety of breeds. The largest 
in number are the Guernseys, second IIol- 
steins, third native and last the Jer¬ 
seys. The best stand in butterfat I have 
obtained was from a herd of 10 during 
the month of May; they averaged 43.3 
pounds of butterfat. From the whole 
485 cows for the month of May the aver¬ 
age amounts to 23 pounds of buttei’fat 
each. R. c. F. 
Amherst Jet., Wis. 
I COULD not tell very much about how 
many or what per cent, unprofitable 
cows I am testing now until the end of the 
year. In some herds I know all will 
make a good profit, while in other herds 
one-half are boarders. I should say the 
average would be three boarders to every 
herd of 12 cows. A part of my associa¬ 
tion was testing last year and weeded out 
a great many. But they also studied 
feeding more than ever, and fed more. 
This year the largest percentage of un¬ 
profitable cows are in the new part of the 
association, where testing was not done 
before. The largest record I have for one 
cow one month is 82.5 pounds fat. The 
average run is about 30 pounds fat. This 
is only an estimate, as I have not aver¬ 
aged it exactly to the pound. Half of 
my association, as I stated above, tested 
last year, or my average would be about 
25 pounds fat per month. R. F. a. 
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The method which I now use, and 
which I prefer to all others is as follows: 
The calf is allowed to suck the first milk 
from the cow, and then taught to drink. 
They should never suck but once, as 
the longer they are allowed to suck, the 
hardef they are to teach. After that 
they get one quart of milk mixed with 
one quart of cold water, just as it comes 
from the tank, twice a day. I like to let 
them run in a stall, hut they may be 
tied if necessary. After a week hay and 
grain are kept before them. After each 
feeding, a little grain is put into their 
mouths, and in a surprisingly short time 
they are eating like old cows. If desired, 
the amount of milk fed may be increased 
from time to time, but it is not necessary. 
In a month or so, when the calf is grow¬ 
ing well, and eating plenty of hay and 
grain, the milk can be gradually with¬ 
drawn. It is well to increase the amount 
of water given before this time, as the 
dry fodder consumed necessitates it. 
Most people, when hearing of this 
method for the first time, imagine that 
the calves are starving, but if carefully 
fed, they are soon making rapid growth. 
The man from whom I learned the 
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