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Jht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
October 11, 19-4 
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Live Stock Matters 
By Prof. F. C. Minkler 
Poorly Nourished Calves 
I have six calves ranging from three to 
six months old. I am feeding them 
plenty of hay and about three quarts of 
skim-milk to one of hay tea. They are 
not in as good shape as they might be. 
I started them on whole milk, changing 
to skim-milk and calf meal, then to the 
present ration of hay, hay tea and skim- 
milk. What kind of grain could I give 
them so as to drop out the hay tea and 
part or all of the skim-milk V e. h. 
Dansville, N. Y. 
It is necessary to induce your calves 
to eat grain at an early age if it is de¬ 
sired that they grow and make regular 
gains. Oftentimes when calves are pail- 
fed this can be accomplished by sprink¬ 
ling a mixture of bran, middlings, and 
oilmeal in the bottom of the bucket after 
the calf has finished drinking the milk. 
In his endeavor to obtain more milk he 
will nibble away at the grain, and once 
this appetite is formed he will not be 
satisfied without these concentrates. After 
he gets a taste of this grain mixture, the 
grain can be sprinkled in a low, flat box 
and the calf will learn to take the grain 
in this manner. 
It is evident that the reason your 
calves are not growing and gaining in 
weight as desired is because you are un¬ 
derfeeding them. Skim-milk, to which 
hay tea has been added, which is supple¬ 
mented by roughage without the grain, is 
inadequate for growth. In fact, there is 
very little nutriment in hay tea, although 
it is intended to provide some of the min¬ 
eral salts and fat that ordinarily would 
be contributed by the whole milk.- 
Again, it is possible that you have been 
feeding extravagant amounts of the skim- 
milk. \yhere excessive amounts of milk 
are fed in conjunction with coarse hay, 
there is a tendency for the calves to de¬ 
velop especially large middles and there 
is not enough nourishment to enable them 
to get that bodily growth and muscular 
development that is essential. A mixture 
consisting of five parts of ground oats, 
five parts of wheat middlings, five parts 
of bran, and one part of linseed meal, 
provides a very good starting mixture. It 
is not necessary for calves to have very 
much of this grain at the outset. But 
the important element is to prevail upon 
them to eat some of this grain when they 
are not more than three weeks old. If 
the calves are fed the new milk for the 
first two weeks and then the change 
gradually made from new milk to skim- 
milk, there are many advantages, for one 
is able to maintain the calf fat and fin¬ 
ish and likewise he is able to take them 
past the critical period from their change 
from whole milk to skim-milk without a 
setback. 
If at all possible, calves of this age 
should be fed some clover or Alfalfa hay 
rather than the coarse Timothy hay, for 
ash and mineral matter that is essential 
for growth is contributed by legumes and 
calves will grow and gain more rapidly 
than when these products are made avail¬ 
able from any other source. It seems 
that these minerals are more highly di¬ 
gestible in this than in any other form, 
since they are palatable and provide a 
combination that is very conducive to 
growth and vigor. After the calves are 
six months old. then the addition of 5 or 
10 per cent of corn to the grain ration 
proposed has its advantages. Particularly 
would this be true in the case of your 
calves, where they are thin fleshed and 
.undeveloped in frame. The function of 
corn, of course, is to provide energy and 
put -on flesh, but any change in ration for 
calves should be made gradually and any 
increase in amount likewise should be led 
tip to. It is so easy to get a calf off 
its feed by changing not only the combi¬ 
nation of grain but by making the mix¬ 
ture so palatable that he will not eat it. 
Profit in Feeding 
I enclose a copy of the results of my 
dairy compiled from reports filled out by 
the man in charge. The ration during 
the Winter was silage, gluten and all 
the hay the cattle wanted. I would-like 
to have your criticism on the result. 
New York. S. B. 
This herd certainly shows a very good 
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