Show PROPER FEEDING FOR CALF Change From Whole Milk to Skim Must Mud Be Gradual Gradual Allow Allow Youngster Youngster Youngster Young Young- ster Clean Dry Paddock my Hv Dy A A. ton The mothers mother's milk should be fed the first week beginning when hen the calf Is IB 21 to 36 hours old The milk mu must mut a abe be fresh and warm about ninety five to one hundred degrees Fahrenheit and must always be fed from rom a clean pall pail preferably a tin pall pail A wooden pall pail Is too hard to keep sweet and clean The Tho second week whole milk from any cow may mar be fed and the third week If It the calf is in good health and growing nicely the change to skim skim- milk may be u begun Do not make the mistake of feeding more skim milk simply because the cream Is la removed remo The whole hoe milk mille contains about as aE much prot protein ln as the calf calt can handU handlo and anti when skim milk Is fed In large quantities the calf gets more than ho hl car use and as a consequence a sick sid calf caIr Is IB the result The chan change e from front whole milk to must be gradual from one half hair to one and one half pounds a da day depending upon the size and vigor of calf To an average calf calC two weeks old we wo would feed about twelve pounds a day of whole milk The first fint day of the tile third week or when it IP Is desirable to begin tho the change the tite dally daily feed would be eleven pounds ol of whole milk and one pound of or skim skim- milk the second da day ten pounds of whole milk and two pounds of skim skim- milk and so on until the complete change is made made- It Is 18 Just as essential essential essen essen- to feed the skim milk warm at as the whole milk although when the th calf gets larger and stronger six to tc ten weeks old a gradual change to cold milk may be he made Allow the calf calt a clean airy paddock or box stall In which to get Give him some well pH cured hay sue such as ns timothy and clover cr or timothy alone as soon as ns he will eat at It it which will be when he is from frolD three to four tour we weeks ks old Alfalfa In sm small quantities may be fed pd but with this roughage there Is danger of the calf's cults pa tins more than he can properly digest Grain may be bo fed fell ae as soon lioon as ashe he will wl take it It and for this purpose a mixture of bran brall and or c coats J oats alone is recommended I |