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Show Warm Milk Best for Calves SKIMMILK fed calves should bo as nearly U10 same from day to day as possible, and should always be sweet: Many farmers fail in the attempt to raise sklmmllk calves with satisfactory results simply because of the . filthy and Insanitary methods employee!. The milk should bo warmed to body temperature, especially with tho younger calves during winter. Tho amount of sklmmllk fed may be increased to twenty pounds per day, but It is not generally profitable to feed In larger quantities. The length of time to contlnuo feeding milk will vary with conditions, but ordinarily It does not pay after the calf Is 7 or S months old, except when tho supplv Is plentiful and would othorwiso be wasted. When it Is 2 or 3 weeks old the calf can be taught to eat a little grain by throwing a handful in the pall after It has finished drinking tho milk. The grain should not be put In tho milk, as the calf will swallow It with the mlllc without much mastication and It will not bo properly digested. The calf will soon learn to look for the grain and at & or G weeks of age should be eating a pound or no a day, A good grain mixture for feeding in this way may be made of three parts corn-meal, corn-meal, three pails ground oats, one part bran and one part oil cake, by weight, and tho amount fed, should bo Increased gradually so as to allow from one-half to one pound per dcy per hundred pnundj weight of the calf. Thlo Is liberal feeding and should keep the calf In goad, "condition and give good gains. Lighter feeding rnay bo followed In many casts with good reeuits and less cost I ua In raising dairy htlfcrs 011 tho farm. |