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Show GOOD CARE OF YOUNG CALF Prof. Redman Doet Not Favor Pasturing Pastur-ing Animals During Flrat Summer on Account of Fliea. The Maine Farmer thus reports the address of Prof. H. W. Kedr.iau given on the Farming Special trip, on the, subject of the dairy enlf: Ills suggestions sug-gestions were the results of the best practical experience along that line. After some preliminary remarks along the line of selection of the cow nnd the use of a putebied bull. In which I he emphasized the quite generally accepted ac-cepted assertion that the sire Is half the breed, he spoke particularly of I the treatment of the cow before calv- lug. Hhe should rest a few weeks and should be fed well but not high, and should have some succulent feed. She should have good care and attention und will respond with better offspring. He suggested the following treatment treat-ment of the calf: U'ave It with the dam a few days and then take It away and teach It to drink. A clean pall should be used and the milk should always be the same temperature. tempera-ture. After a few days of whole milk, Ihe use of aklmmllk may be com- S" f ' j f v."-',;.. - ' i j y -: , ;-,Jf-rl, i Comfortable Ct'f Stanchion. menced, with tome substitutes for the fat which la taken oit In the cream. The feeding of grain and clover hay may be commenced and gradually Increased as the calf la able to assimilate It. Professor Redman said that the calf ihould be kept growing and not allowed al-lowed to get a setback at any time, for It might never fully recover from It and would not bo likely to make the high quality cow that It otherwise other-wise would. Professor Hednian did not favor pasturing pas-turing the calves during the first lum-rner, lum-rner, but rather keeping them Inside and away from the annoying files during dur-ing the warm days, for often they lose more In fighting flies than they gain by the open air and pasturing. They might be turned out Into a pen at olght. |