Show S SUMMER U M M E CARE FOR THE CALF unless young animals are kept growing during first year final development la Is retarded by R at minnesota ex pediment perl Peri ment station the first year of a life la Is the most important with respect to its growth unless animals are 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 beat regulated dairy farms calves cakes are born in the autumn and early winter and they should receive skim milk in moderate quantities through much or all of the summer following birth on farms having hand separators there Is no difficulty in providing the sweet milk for calves cal vea morning and evening but farmers who patronize whole milk creameries crea meries merles or who still skim by hand should remember that after the first few weeks milk for calves should either be thoroughly sweet or fully sour that the most moat dangerous condition Is the half sour stage if milk Is fed to calves when it Is in this changing condition it is almost certain to cause indigestion it should not be half sour nor sour one day and sweet the next but always one or the other clean feeding palls must be used otherwise the germs of fermentation and diarrhea will be brought to the enfant cow from the slime of the dirty drinking ash and with young calves it Is important Impo that the temperature at which the milk Is fed be nearly that of the body older animals may receive milk of the temperature of 0 the milk holding tank while it Is very important that heffers heifers should have free 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 first of the year pasturing may be a disadvantage most young calves in this country are better off chewing tender hay in the quiet and half dark stable than fighting flies files panting from the tha heat and cropping tough grass in the pasture |