Show profitable TO RAISE CALVES DURING WINTER they do not cost ns as much is as those dorn born in tho the spring owina to the absence of ilent und and viles flies how they are arc managed calves dropped in the late fall and tho cho early part of winter can bo be raised at less cost than calves dropped in spring spring calves do not receive much benefit from grass tho the first season because for somo some six weeks after birth the ruminating stomach la is undeveloped ve vo loped then again the summer heat and the plague of flies files are a serious drawback to healthy growth in the fall and during the wilter months outdoor work not being so pressing more time for feeding and caring for the calves may bo be given the calves being led fed mostly on milk and swill mill feed and oatmeal food and kept in a warm well lighted box stall and under the management ot or a careful hand will make a strong growth throughout the winter and by april they will bo be large from tho the mother afterward give elvo sweet skim milk to which may bo be added a little boiled and second quality wheat flour peed feed lukewarm twice a day about two quarts at each meal give tho the colt calf tho the two fingers of 0 the right hand to suck up the milk at first tho calf will soon learn to drink the milk without tho the hand feed at regular hours after tho the milk has been drunk put a little hay in tho the mouth A little bright sweet clover hay should bo be tied in the pen every day this will teach tho the call calf to eat have a clean teed feed bucket disease and no end of oc germs lurk in the seams scams of a dirty bucket A wooden bucket should not bo be used unless scoured out dally daily tho the buckets should be washed scalded and set in the sun every day tho the fo T W 46 arfi A vow P v gw ILA R J va Y 1 content enough to turn out to pasture and do well on the dry rations of the following winter the fall calf properly fed and cared for can bo be served when 16 to 18 months of age coming fresh the latter part of the second winter the calf should be left with the cow days after birth as the milk vae cow which Is of a turbid yel ish color unfit tor for human food but ving medicinal qualities designed by nature to free the bowels find and intestines of the now born animal from the mucous matter always existing in the abo stomach of 0 the calf after birth this milk should never be given to older calves as it would produce scours for the first few days give fresh newly drawn milk calves from the best beat cows should to be raised it la is well to raise a choice male animal to take the tha place ol of tho the head bull when ho he becomes too old or vicious dairymen having the pasture and the forage should raise miss their cows instead of buying them better rall kera may be hid had and at much less leaa cost coat the labor cost of raising a calf should not be counted as aa the farmer should attend to this part of the business lie ile has abundant time not only to raise the calves but also to feed and help milk unless tho the owner gives given careful attention to details he held had better give up the milk business the calf pen should bo be kept clean given dry bedding and fully exposed to the sun sunshiny shino and well aired |