Show grain for the calves it will pay to give the calves some grata grain as soon as aa they get to the point where they care for it they will take an interest in it very early in ile iha it it la Is daily placed before them calves can use corn and other grains to better advantage than cows as they digest it more fully up to several months ot of age this is 13 because their stomachs are at first more fitted to digest concentrated feeds than bulky feeds from the age ot of six months to a year old their digestive systems gradually undergo a and then are ara adapted best for the handling of bulky foods some ot of which are retained in the process ot of digestion for from three days to a week therefore a little grain during calf bood will be used to advantage and aad the little ant animals will be thriftier for it the writer has frequently fed whole corn to calves daily and found that they made the best possible use of it IL probably there therb Is no do better grain than oats for calves as it Is better suited stilted to make muscle than is corn in the feeding of grain to calves it Is preferable to teed feed it dry as it Is then more thoroughly masticated it is doubtful lt it it Is a good practice to grind it and mix inix it with milk or other slop as Is romet lines done one advantage in leeding oats a that they are a brodu I 1 er ot of muscle rather than of 0 fat as it Is not desirable to induce the young and growing animals to lay on oa tat fat the calt calf that Is two months old may be fed as much as a pint of grata a day and the grain ration can be increased with the growth of the iho calf and the conditions la in the grain market anil and pasture if the pasture Is short of course more grain should be ba fed than it II the pasturage Is abundant also a calf on a blue grass pasture would need less grain to keep it thrifty than would the calf on a wild pasture |