Show GET BEST RESULTS BY FEEDING GRAIN adjust ration to prevent tendency to scour to get best results calves should have about all of the grain they can eat up to the time they are five to six months old and a good methods of feeding would be to have enough grain in the manger so that there Is some grain there lly all of the time it would be desirable to feed the grain twice a day aiming to feed it so that there will be just a little left from each feeding when it Is time to give the next feed calves are handled this way to the age of about six months after that they can be turned to pasture or fed about the same as you would feed older cattle and should go ahead and make satis factory growth it Is only occasionally that it Is desirable to try to treat a calf for scours by any other means than to adjust the ration so as to prevent the tendency to scour changing grain ration should help to reduce the amount of scouring in calves it Is necessary to avoid feeding too much skim milk also generally about one gallon of whole milk at a feed twice a day la as much as any calf can handle during the first two or three weeks of its life and many calves will not handle quite this much it Is doubtful if it Is ever de to feed more than one and gnp half gallons of skim milk at a feed twice a day to calves after they are put on the skim milk Larger amounts of milk are often the cause of scouring and digestive disturbances putting milk cows in one large box stall at various times there has been mentioned a system of dairy cow hous 1 ing that has an able exponent in the head of the illinois university delry department prof W J frasar the plan that professor has fol lowed for years at the university farm st paul Is to iain the milk cows in large bos stalls the whole herd in one stall the cows are only for grain feeding and milking hay and ensilage are fed in racks this plan has been quite widely adopted in illinois and those who practice it claim that labor Is conald drably reduced the cows are in better health the manure Is preserved more perfectly and the cows are cleaner to keep the cows clean about one third more straw wilt be required than when the cows so stabled are de horned this Is considered ar edvan tage whether the cows are in stan colons or loose boxes hot water effectively removes all milk fat several agricultural coders and hundreds of users of machines have found from experience that hot wa ter not less than ngu degrees fahren helt will effectively remove the milk fat that Is so destructive to the rubber parts and at the same time kill most of the bacteria cold water should first be sucked through the ma chine immediately after the milking Is finished by lifting the teat cups up and down an air brushing action will be secured as well as a water bresli ing effect this will remove thi that Is in the machine following the hot water rinse some users of machines find desirable to keep the teat cups on solution racks designed tor them this arrangement keeps the teat cups and tubes filled with a fresh chlorine sterilizing alon as Is not possible with the jars which were formerly used S dairy facts ssie yearling and two vear old heffers heifers should be fed very little geln all inferior calves in individuality and breeding should be healed or oth disposed of the young bulls should not be used for service until they are a year old and then should be given very light weed out the unprofitable dalry cows it Is moie profitable to milk cows than a half da os ke liva of value 1 the for t los ta ire cearly cu arly n i ar n to n be with bly neck or goiter of the various means by which one may get greater returns from a n acreage of pasture ps ture none is portent than turning live stock fram one pasture to another hen the daughters of a bull corn into production thit bull proved to be either a breed ing animal or soups alt aro |