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Show MILK SUBSTITUTE FOR CALF Massachusetts Experiment Station Recommends Feeding Mixture Costing Cost-ing Three Cents Pound. Nothing is better than milk on which to raise thrifty, growing calves, whether they are intended for the dairy, the feed lot or the show ring. The ordinary farmer often finds milk too expensive as a calf feed. The following fol-lowing substitute is recommended by the Massachusetts Experiment station sta-tion : Twenty-two pounds ground oats, ten pounds linseed meal, five pounds middlings, 11 pounds fine corn-meal, corn-meal, IVz pounds fine blood meal, one-half one-half pound salt. Total cost, three cents a pound. Prepare by adding one-half pound of meal to two quarts of boiling watei for each feed. At each feeding moisten the meal first with a little cold water to prevent it forming lumps, and then pour on the boiling water, and stir well. When this is cooled down to the temperature of milk fresh drawn from the cow it is ready to feed. It is better to let the calf have whole milk for about a week, then gradually introduce a little of the milk substitute substi-tute for ten days or two weeks, when you can cut out the milk entirely. As soon as the calf will eat, let it have hay and a little of the meal dry, together with fresh water. Always have the calf meal mixture milk-warm milk-warm when fed. Have the buckets clean and do not overfeed. A young calf will usually begin to eat hay at about three weeks old. |