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Show FINE INVESTMENT IN CALVES Writer Tells of Profitable Experience In Buying Up Young Animals-Feed Animals-Feed Cost but Little. Now is the time for farmers who have more hay than they can feed, to buy calves, for they will make a fine investment. At least my experience proves so, says a writer in an exchange. ex-change. Three years ago we bought 12 calves, as we had more hay than we could use. It was cowpea hay. Usually at this time of the year some farmers have one or two calves for Rale for about $10 to $15 each, which is the price we paid for ours. We turned thern on pasture, and by the time pasture was gone they were in fulr shape, as they were very poor when we bought them. That winter all we fed them was cowpea hay. In spring they were nice, sleek and fat. Then about June and July we bred them to a fine registered Jersey bull. All the calves were part or all Jerseys. Jer-seys. The manure was worth as much as the hay, for it is the best of fertili- , Champion Jersey Cow. zers, thus getting a second use out of it in raising a better crop and in building up the farm. Thus we were out the time in feeding the 12, which was not much, as all we had to do was to stuff hay in the mangers twice a day and salt them once a week. Water was plentiful. The next winter we fed them clover and cowpea cow-pea hay, also corn stover, no grain, and they were In fine shape. In the spring they had calves, of which we kept the females and sold the males. The calves were worth more than the handling of the cows. Then we had young, fresh cows for sale, which after the sale brought over $50 each. Before selling we bred to our registered Jersey bull, which was one of the best to be had. |