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Show WINTER CARE OF THE CALF First Essential Is to 8eparate Young Animals From Older and Stronger Stock Need More Feed. . The first essential to calf-ralslng In the winter Is to separate tho ypung animals from tho older and stronger stock. Soldo farmers, in fact, most of thorn allow cattle of all shapes and sizes to run together, but whero this is done, the larger ones naturally crowd the smaller and weaker members out of the most comfortable parts of tho winter quarters even forcing them to spend the severest portion ot the night exposed to the rough elements. Buch a course Is unprofitable for two reasons, to say nothing of the suffering to which tho .helpless calves, with their susceptible constitutions, thus are subjected. They will require more food to kocp their bodies warm and offset the detrimental detri-mental action of tho severe cold. Then, no matter how much they are fed, the exposure stunts their whole general system to such nn extent that their delicate tissues and organs never wlll'dejrelop as they would If a steady, undisturbed growth had been maintained main-tained from tho start. An undesirable dairy or stock animal Is thus developed. de-veloped. Again, tho farmer has not tho time to watch tho cattlo and seo that tho calves get their full share of tho feed. Just notlco the herd somo morning, If you are feeding tho calveB, dairy and stock cattlo all together, andtyou Triplet Calves. will obsprve that the little fellows are getting ,only a bit now and then as they dodgo about among the other cattle. Indeed, they aro oven very liablo to be badly Injured besides by some of tho larger animals. Furthermore, even it it wore sensible sen-sible or profitable to allow tho calves to run with tho. older animals, they require more time In which to eat and tbey will do much better If rations ra-tions peculiarly adapted to their needs are given them,. In case one Is handling a considerable consid-erable herd of stock calves .they should be placed In separate .quarters .from the others. Even the lot In "which they exercise or have their feed racks for forage, should be arranged so the larger animals will not have access to It ' Individual feed troughs or boxes cannot be furnished In a case like this, but long troughs should be provided, pro-vided, their size being sufficient to permit all the calves to eat without crowding some way, as the larger ones soon acquire the habit of cheating cheat-ing the smaller and weaker ones out of their feed. Where one Is raising only a few calves, especially If they are for the dairy herd, thoy should bo housed as abovo advised, and in addition they should bo trained to the halter. Teach them to stand tied In their stalls and to lead anywhere desired. |