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Show REAR CALVES ON SKI MM ILK' Production of Cheap Feeders by Pail' Method Has Become Decidedly Important Question. There has grown up a necessity for the application of economic methods in beef production. Though feeder may be produced from cows with calves at the side on large areasof cheap grazing land, it is doubtfuT whether this method can be successfully success-fully employed on the average farm operated under an intensive system. In this case more revenue must ber secured from a cow during the year than that produced in the feeder steer or heifer receiving the entire product of the mother rearing it. It is true that pedigreed animals, especially of the beef classes reared for sale, for breeding or for show purposes, pur-poses, can be profitably suckled by-their by-their dams because of the higher price they bring. The rearing of cheap feeders by the pail method has. become an important question with; the beef producer? Dairymen, of n --"Eiity, have l. ng: practiced rearing calves on skimmilk; supplemented by grain, hay. silage, etc., and some have even dispensed with skimmilk feeding in quite a large measure. As a general thing the pail-fed calf suffers from neglect and want of sufficient suf-ficient feed of the proper character, but there is no secret to success in, rearing calves on sTdmmilk and supplementary sup-plementary feed when it is combined with judicious management. |