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April 3, 101.'.. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
ESSENTIALS IN RAISING THE DAIRY 
HEIFER. 
1. Keep a good purebred sire of one 
nf the dairy breeds at the head of the 
herd. 
2. Keep individual milk records of the 
cows. 
3. Don't raise every heifer calf, but 
select the calves to be raised from the 
highest producing cows as shown by their 
records. 
4. Unless in some special case aim to 
have your cows calve, in the Fall. The idea 
of having the cows calve in the Spring and 
then producing a lot of so-called “cheap” 
milk on pasture is erroneous. Having the 
cows calve in the Fall means easy heifer 
raising and greater yearly milk produc¬ 
tion. with greater profits. 
5. As soon as the calf is dropped bathe 
the navel cord in a mild solution of cre- 
olin or carbolic acid to avoid danger of 
white scours. White scours is an in¬ 
fectious disease gaining entrance through 
the navel cord. It occurs soon after calv¬ 
ing and must be treated in its early stages 
to get best results. Try three ounces 
castor oil in a pint, of milk, or simply 
give oil as drench. One half ounce of 
formalin in UDf. ounces of water given 
at the rate of one teaspoonful for each 
pound of milk will destroy the germs, 
0. It is a good practice to let the calf 
remain with its mother for three days 
in order that it may get the colostrum 
milk and got it often and in small 
amounts. This will also help to get the 
udder in good condition should it be, 
caked or swollen. 
7. On the fourth or fifth day if all is 
well take calf from its mother and teach 
it to drink from a bucket, usually by 
holding a finger in the calf’s mouth and 
holding his mouth in the milk in the pail. 
Feed the mother’s milk if not so rich as 
to interfere with digestion. If it is too 
rich, dilute with skim-milk; 8.5 to 4% 
is ideal for most calves as beginners. 
Feed the milk with the animal heat in 
it if possible. 
S. Feed four quarts to the small calf 
and five quarts to the large calf of the 
whole milk in three feeds a day until the 
calf is from one to two weeks old. 
0. At the end of two weeks begin to 
substitute one pound of skim-milk for a 
pound of whole milk until the calf is on 
a skim-milk ration. Increase the amount 
to six or seven quarts per day, but be 
careful not to overfeed. Watch the tail 
end of the calf carefully. It is a true 
feeding guide. 
10. Feeding may now be done twice a 
day, and you should aim to feed directly 
after separation while the milk is still 
warm. If no separator is used, feed only 
sweet milk and warm it to 95 degrees F. 
Keep all calf pails thoroughly cleaned. 
Oalf scours or indigestion is caused by 
overfeeding, feeding cold milk, using dirty 
pails, etc. 
11. Supply grain early to supplant fat 
which the skim-milk lacks. Place dry 
grain in a box where the calf can get at 
it at all times until it takes it well, then 
feed in box dry after feeding milk. (Jive 
what the calf will clean up, probably one- 
quarter to one-half pound daily for two 
months. Feed a mixture of equal parts 
eornmeal and crushed oats; or equal parts 
whole oats, bran and oil meal; or corn- 
meal, ground barley, and bran, or possi¬ 
bly some other combination of the feeds 
mentioned, aiming to have corn or lin¬ 
seed oil meal in the mixture on account 
of their fat-supplying properties. 
12. Begin feeding bay when grain is 
fed, using mixed bay at first and after a 
month or so changing, preferably, to clo¬ 
ver or Alfalfa. Rowen is ideal for the 
calf. 
13. Supply plenty of fresh water and 
have a lump of rock salt where the calf 
can get at it after it begins to eat hay 
and grain. 
14. If plenty of skim-milk is at hand 
it may be fed until the calf is six months 
old to good advantage, the calf probably 
gaining l 1 ^ pounds per day on the aver¬ 
age. If one does not have plenty of skim- 
milk, the calf may be weaned at two 
months of age. If one has no skim-milk 
at all, a substitute may be provided by 
diluting whole milk with water or by 
using a calf meal. 
15. When Spring comes the Fall- 
dropped calf is six to eight months old 
and is ready for pasture, and pasturage 
makes the best ration possible for calves 
at this age. 
16. Feed the yearling the second Win¬ 
ter a ration composed of corn silage 20 
pounds, hay eight or 10 pounds and grain 
three to five pounds. 
17. Breed the heifer at 18 months on 
the average, the early maturing breeds a 
little sooner, and late maturing breeds a 
little later. This will make late Fall 
heifers calve well along in the Winter, 
but they can and should be bred the best 
time so that they will freshen in early 
Autumn. 
18. It will cost in the neighborhood of 
$80 to raise the heifer to time of calving. 
A good heifer will give as much or more 
during her first lactation period than will 
the cow that can be bought for $80, and 
her years of usefulness have just begun. 
H. F. JUDKINS. 
Experience With Tuberculous Cows. 
WAS much interested in discussions 
brought out by farm manager’s prob¬ 
lem on tuberculosis, and I think much 
as “farm owner” .1. does about it. The 
tuberculin test as now used is more 
than we can stand, and I would not take 
as a gift a cow from a herd which claimed 
never to have a reactor. There is a 
dealer in this State who buys and sells 
thousands of milch cows annually, all 
tested, who never has a cow slaughtered. 
If they react they are turned aside for a 
couple of weeks and tested again when, 
of course, they don’t react; yet I know 
personally of five cows in this town which 
came from that herd, which have died 
from tuberculosis. 
On the other band, there was, up to 
last year, near here, a large herd of pure¬ 
bred Guernseys owned by a man who 
could afford it, who tested religiously 
for 20 years; yet he had more reactors 
on his last test than lie did on his first, 
and I have seen cows die from tubercu¬ 
losis in that herd between yearly tests: 
We started to clean up our own herd five 
years ago, but decided we had had 
enough, when on the third yearly test 
we had six reactors out of a herd of 28 
and post-mortem examination showed 
two of them to be absolutely healthy, one 
of them being an 1,100-pound cow, and 
the best cow in the herd. Two showed 
the slightest trace, and the worst of the 
lot. the only one condemned for food 
purposes, was a tested one bought only 
two weeks before. 
Before closing, I would like to give 
“H.” an instance of the deadliness of 
milk or udder product of a tuberculous 
cow. About 12 years ago we bad a baby 
boy here who weighed 12 pounds when 
born. His mother’s milk would not di¬ 
gest properly, and we tried every patent 
food or combination of foods under the 
sun. Nothing agreed with him, and at 
five months old he weighed 11 pounds 
10 ounces. The doctor said he couldn’t 
live another week, but he said: “I don’t 
know of anything else to try, so you 
might try raw cow’s milk; it can’t act 
any worse than the other stuff.” I 
dressed in the night, went to the farm, 
taking a nursing bottle with me, and 
milked the bottle full out of the only 
cow that was standing up. The baby 
did not throw up a drop of it, and be¬ 
gan to gain from that day, though we 
fed him nothing but milk from that one 
cow for nearly a year, and if there is a 
healthier or bigger boy for bis age to¬ 
day, I’d like to sec him. About a year or 
15 months after starting to feed that 
baby, the cow died, and on bolding post¬ 
mortem to find cause, it didn’t take long 
to find it. I don’t remember that there 
was a single organ that was not literally 
eaten up with tuberculosis. This may be 
dead against your teachings and those of 
the various agricultural colleges, but they 
are the chronicle of our own experience 
and personal observation, and I am going 
to stand on my present conviction until 
I see a wide change from the present 
system. t. ii. laing. 
It. N.-Y.—We print this as a part of 
the discussion now being conducted, but 
we earnestly hope that no one will be 
led by this statement to use milk from 
cows that are known to have the disease. 
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