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dairymen would raise more calves tlieir dairies would be 
more easily kept up. No objection to feeding sweet milk, 
only that we do not get so much butter by so doing. 
J R. McLean, of Elgin, said the question is an old one 
and has received no little attention from dairymen. He had 
favored the idea of raising calves for years; had raised calves 
on sweet whey, scalded; also used a little oats and meal; fed 
mush, or pudding, made of corn meal, putting in sweet milk; 
fed no bran until September. He got a Holstein calf and 
took it home, and in three weeks his cows increased a can o 
milk [This was said in reply to a question as to what le 
thought of the Holstein stock.] He had a cow which lie had 
raised that gave sixty-one and a quarter pounds of mu ^ pel 
day. 
Tiios Bishop said he would let calves suck until nine c ays 
old, and then put them in the barn and feed them milk; Ins 
steers at two years old weighed 700. It required about ninety 
gallons of milk to raise a calf. 
Dr. Woodward, of Marengo, thought one of the greatest 
leaks was in not having good cows, and thought it impossi¬ 
ble to have good cows unless we raise good calves. 
Dr. Joseph Tefft said that in raising calves in winter a 
dairyman would have to provide a different kind of feed from 
what he did in summer. 
S. W. Kingsley, of Barrington, said he had lieen raising 
calves for years, and would continue to do so. 
Topic No. 13. “ To what extent may soiling be profitably 
substituted for pasturage?” was opened by J. R. McLean, 
who said this is the first year we have sown corn for cattle; 
feed from shock; am convinced that it is a good way; wit 
try it again; feed Hungarian in October. 
D. C. Scofield. Elgin, said we are left without data on 
which to base calculations. When we fail to have pasturage 
to keep up the flow of milk, then we need Hungarian and 
sweet and early corn; but if there were pasturage there would 
be little need of soiling. . 
Prof. F. H. Hall said he was feeling his way in regard to 
