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Show ROB CALF OF MOTHER'S MILK Expert of Colorado Station Says It Is. "Saving at the Spigot and Losing at the Bung." (By GEORGE H. GLOVER, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins.) We are beginning to question whether after ail it pays in the long run to rob the calf of its mother's milk and try to raise the future cow on whitewash and sawdust, or, to express ex-press it with a little more moderation, modera-tion, to try to raise the calf on separator sep-arator milk and patent foods. Certain it is that the calf will keep healthier and grow into a better cow or bull if given whole milk, at least as a part ration. Dairymen have fig- tV Feeding Calves in Stanchions. v ured it out to their satisfaction that whole milk is too valuable to feed to calves and from the standpoint of immediate returns, these figures don't lie. But if we could in some way estimate es-timate the ultimate loss in calves that die from this treatment the depreciation deprecia-tion in value of mature animals that have been stunted In their growth and the price that must be paid for milch cows, it might look different. Is it not a case of 'saving at the spigot and losing at the bung?' |