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THE R LJ R A T> NKW-YOKKER 
November 13, 191f>. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
Raising Calves With Cows. 
I was reading a plan in one of the 
Department of Agriculture’s books that 
recommended letting calves suck on the 
mother for three months, then separate 
them and let the calves suck two or 
three times a day until they were six or 
seven months old. I have, usually, quite 
a number of calves on hand, and as it 
would be a task to turn all the mothers 
into the field where all the calves were 
and after letting them suck turn the 
cows out again, I thought of a plan 
that I would like to have your opinion 
on. Make calf runs on Blue grass or 
young Timothy and have the runs about 
300x300 feet, fenced off, and with a 
shelter pen built in each run, two calves 
in each run. Twice a day, after the 
calves are three months old, turn in the 
mother of her calf and her adopted calf 
into the calf run and let the calves suck. 
By this plan you are sure to get the 
right calves to suck the right cows, and 
there is no bother about separating the 
calves and cows when about to turn the 
cows out of the runs, like there would 
be if you turned all the cows into pasture 
with all the calves. I would like to have 
your opinion as to this plan, also I would 
like to have your opinion on the follow¬ 
ing questions: Would the size run men¬ 
tioned, 100x300 feet, be big enough, pro¬ 
vided thex-e was shade,, and a good set of 
Blue grass or Timothy on it? If I let 
the calves suck for six months, three 
months on the cow and three months 
sucking twice a day, would it cause the 
cow not to breed as early as if the calf 
had only been allowed to suck for four 
months? For the calves to suck for six 
or seven months, would it cause the 
calves about to be born to be weak in 
any way? T. H. B. 
Elizabeth, W. Ya. 
Where cows are raising two calves, 
they should be isolated from the rest 
of the herd at nursing time. Your plan 
of keeping calves from their mothers ex¬ 
cept for the morning and night nursing 
is all right when you are allowing two 
calves to suckle one cow, as this method 
allows the adopted calf an equal chance 
at the cow’s entire supply of milk with 
the other calf, while if the calves were 
allowed to run in the pasture, difficulty 
would probably arise from the cow's own 
calf taking all of the milk. 
The only objection to a small runway 
for each two calves would be the ex¬ 
pense of construction, which would 
amount to a considerable figure if you 
are raising many calves. However, if 
light fences could be built between the 
different calf lots at a low cost, and ar¬ 
ranged so they would be convenient to 
the pasture, you would have a very good 
place for rearing young stock during the 
pasture season. 
Your plan of keeping two calves on 
one cow is an economical one, although 
a cow in rugged healthy condition and 
possessing some tendency toward milking 
qualities should be able to care for two 
calves for a period of six months, pro¬ 
viding she is well fed. Breeding should 
not be affected by permitting the calves 
to suck until they are six months of age, 
provided the cows are regular breeders. 
A lactation period of six months will not 
materially detract from the foetus which 
the cow may be carrying if the proper 
feed nutrients are supplied in her ration. 
Calf runways of the size mentioned 
should afford ample forage for two calves 
under six months, and if pasture is 
abundant this area should provide for 
four such calves. F. c. M. 
Starting Beef Calves. 
H. O. Allison of the Missouri Agricul¬ 
tural College gives this advice: 
“A creep should be provided in the 
pasture so that calves may have access 
to grain without being disturbed by 
cows, as it is very important to start 
beef calves on grain befoi-e they are 
weaned. They may be kept in a separate 
lot into which the cows are turned twice 
a day, if this method is preferred. In 
this case there will, of course, be no need 
for creeps or anything else to keep cows 
from the grain which may be fed at such 
times that the cows will not disturb the 
calves. 
“The calves may be started on a mix¬ 
ture of two parts of shelled corn to one 
part of oats by weight. The oats may 
be gradually reduced until none is being 
fed at the end of eight weeks, but while 
this is being done a little old process lin¬ 
seed oil meal or cottonseed meal should 
be added and the quantity gradually in¬ 
creased until it makes up about a sev¬ 
enth of the weight of the ration. On 
full feed calves should eat about two 
pounds of grain for evei'y hundred pounds 
live weight in addition to good roughage. 
Well-bred calves handled in this way 
should be in prime condition at the end 
of about 10 or 12 months. 
Mammitis. 
I desire to say to E. II., Pennsylvania, 
page 113, who is having trouble with a 
purebred heifer whose rear teat became 
affected, but has now got so that the 
teat gives but about half a pint of milk 
a day, quality apparently growing less, 
that if he will preserve milking that 
teat regularly, though he may get but 
little milk, till she goes dry for the next 
calf, ho can expect that quarter to get 
all right, and produce milk as the other 
quarter when she freshens again. 
I wish to give you a cure for garget 
which I have used exclusively for 25 
years. While I have had a number of 
cases, some right severe, it has always 
been effective. I am no longer worried 
when I find one of my cows thus affected, 
because I find 1 can so easily control 
the trouble. As soon as cow is found 
to be affected, gently milk all the milk 
that can be got from the teat. With a 
woolen cloth foment the quarter with hot 
water, as hot as cow will bear. As quar¬ 
ter relaxes, milk out any remaining milk. 
Foment quarter thoroughly five to 10 
minutes. Then grease the quarter well 
with some salty kitchen grease. When 
this is done, in half a teacup of water 
give cow 20 drops of tincture of acon¬ 
ite. I have had cows come up at night 
with udder tender, badly swollen, quar¬ 
ter giving stringy milk, and by next 
morning swelling would be all gone and 
cow over the trouble, except milk would 
not be good till after one or two milk¬ 
ings. Treatment must be promptly 
dircn, and only very occasionally is it 
found necessary to repeat the treatment. 
I have been running a small herd of 
A. J. C. C. cows for a number of years. 
I know how I formerly was worried with 
cases of garget, and the difficulty had in 
curing the trouble, till I was told by a 
Jersey breeder of the above simple and 
easily applied remedy; and I feel that 
others should have it. As to heifer with 
affected teat, I had a cow that failed for 
some reason in milk in one quarter, and 
was told to persevere milking that teat 
till she went dry and that with next calf 
the quarter would be all right. I did so. 
and affected quarter when cow freshened 
was all right. J. R. 
Kentucky. 
We are much indebted to our corres¬ 
pondent for his letter and have to say 
that it is quite true that where the milk 
in one quarter diminishes and there is no 
infection or acute mammitis present, so 
that the milk does not change in consist¬ 
ency or composition, but is perfectly nor¬ 
mal in every way, that the quarter may 
resume its normal production of milk at- 
a second calving, when the milking is 
kept up regularly until she is dry. That 
unfortunately is not the case if infection 
and consequent disease of the gland 
(mammitis) has been present. In a 
majority of cases the affected quarter 
loses its function or is worse affected 
than ever at a subsequent calving. The 
treatment advised for simple garget 
(mammitis) is not a specific for a se¬ 
vere attack. The aconite is only indi¬ 
cated if fever is present, and in all cases 
poke root and belladonna ointment is pre- 
ferable to salty kitchen grease which has 
no particular virtue. The hot fomenta¬ 
tion, massage and milking does most of 
the good in such cases. A slight case of 
garget, such as J. II. describes, often 
subsides without treatment of any kind, 
and the cause is difficult or impossible 
to find. Unfortunately acute mammitis, 
generally due to streptococcic infection, 
does not commonly respond successfully 
to treatment, despite the fact that the 
trained veterinarian almost invaluably 
gives successive doses of tincture of acon¬ 
ite, and has hot fomentations and many 
other forms of treatment and varieties 
of drugs with a scientific knowledge of 
the disease in mind. Pi-evention is of 
the greatest importance, and so far as 
infective mammitis is concerned, clean¬ 
liness is the prime consideration. 
a. s. A. 
Her eyes were not exactly straight, 
and some one commented upon it and 
asked Smith if he had noticed it. “No¬ 
ticed it, man?” he replied. “Why, she 
is so crosseyed that recently when I sat 
next to her at a dinner she ate off my 
plate.”—Ladies’ Home Journal. 
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