Show CALF DURING FIRST SUMMER mot most important period of animals life with respect to its growth gra ath use clean milk palls palle by rt M WASHBURN WASH BUnN minnesota experiment peri ment station the first year of a life la Is the most important with respect to its ita growth unless animals are ara kept growing during this period their final development will be much retarded and the chances are they never will reach the scale which their inheritance would give them on the best regulated dairy farms calves are born in the autumn and early winter and they should receive skim ealm milk in moderate quantities through much cr all 0 of the summer following birth on farma farms having hand separators epa to there Is no difficulty in providing the sweet milk for calves morning and evening eve nini but farmers who patronize whole milk creameries crea meries merles or who still 8 skim in by band should remember that thai after the tho first few weeks milk for or calves should either bo be thoroughly sweet or fully sour that the most dangerous condition Is the half balt sour bour stage it if milli milk la Is fed to calves when it Is in this this changing condition it la Is almost certain to cause indigestion it should not be half sour nor sour one day and sweet tha next but always one or the tha other clean feeding palls pails must be used otherwise the germs of fermentation and diarrhea will be brought to the infant cow from the slime of the dirty drinking dish and with young calves it ii la Is important that the temperature at which the milk la Is fed be nearly that thai ot of the body older animals may receive milk of the temperature of the milk holding tank while it Is very important that halters should have free frea access to pasture during the second summer to develop strong bodies the calf need not have pasture the first summer in fact for calves born after the tha first of the year pasturing Va may be a disadvantage most young calves in this cour coun try are better off chewing tender hay bay in the quiet and half balf dark stable than fighting flies files panting from the heat and cropping tough grass fu a the pasture |