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Show KEEP YOUNG CALVES THRIFTY Ration Consisting of Cracked Corn, Whole Oats, Bran and Oil Is Considered Excellent, A very excellent ration for keeping young calves in good, thrifty, healthful, health-ful, growing condition is one consisting con-sisting of equal parts cracked corn, whole oats, bran and oil meal. This fed regularly and liberally in conjunction conjunc-tion with clover hay will make them thrive well. The cracked corn furnishes fur-nishes carbohydrates in sufficient proportion pro-portion to keep the calves in excellent flesh and it furnishs heat for warming their bodies in cold weather. Whole oats are very excellent for imparting bone and muscle-growing material ; also stamina in young calves. Cracked Dr shelled corn and whole oats will be digested just as readily and efficiently by calves under one year as will these grains when ground, and calves seem to prefer them unground. |