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Show BUILDING UP A DAIRY HERD Care and Feed of Calves Is of Great Importance Select Best Marked Females. i i Select the best marked female 'calves from the tested and most productive pro-ductive cows. Let the calf remain with the cow for eight to ten days or until the cow's milk is fit for human food. Feed sweet skim milk heated to blood heat; about one to two quarts ;may be given morning and evening. Have a clean tin feed bucket; disease and no end of germs' may be found In i dirty buckets. Feed every day and set out In the sun and air. Feed sweet milk ; it should always :be fed warm; cold and sour milk will 'produce scours and diarrhea. After Good Foundation Stock. the second week a little oatmeal and a small quantity of flaxseed oil meal after it is boiled may be added to the nillk. Tie a little bunch of bright, sweet clover hay In the pen every day for the calf to nibble. After the milk has beed fed put a little meal in the calf's mouth. A little hay may also be given. By this method the calf will soon learn to eat meal and hay. Whole oats and wheat bran may be fed in small quantities after the sixth week. All stock, young and old, thrive and keep In health when well fed and kindly treated. j |