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Show HINTS ON FEEDING YOUNG CALVE8 There Is no need of feeding tho ordinary or-dinary calf for a longor porlod than one weok on wholo milk, according to Dr. W. E. Carrol of tho Animal Husbandry department of tho Utah Agricultural College Ot courso, tho chango to skim milk should not bo mado suddenly, nor without substitutes substi-tutes for tho fat or cream. To ro-placo ro-placo tho fat that has been removed from tho milk, as won as to furnish additional protein, thero is nothing that can take the placo ot flaxseed Jolly. This Jelly should 1)4 added In small quantities at first and slowly increase. Dogln with a dossort spoon ful In cadi feed and increaso gradually gradu-ally until a cupful Is being fed night and morning to tho three months old calf. To proparo tho Jelly, steop ono pound of wholo flaxseed in water almost al-most boiling until a thick pasto results. re-sults. It should bo kept cool nnd sweot until fed. In addition to tho flnxseod Jolly n llttlo dry bran and wholo oats should bo fed. Somo clean swoet hay will bo found a valuable nddttlon to tho ration at a vory early ' ago. |