Show DJ A i y i SUBSTITUTE FOR GOOD SKIM MILKA MILK l g A report just received from the se ts Agricultural says sars that und under r present conditIons dry skIm skill fell fed In accordance with theIr experimental offers the best substitute for liquId skIm milk inthe In Inthe the rearing ot of young oung calves ThIs confirms the work worl ot of Prof C. C H. H Eckles tit of MInnesota who says There Is n no substitute for milk In raising good milk producers The latest feeding is reported by Dr J J. J B. B Lindsey and Proto Prof J. J G G. G Archibald Archi- Archi bald blId as follows For several sc years the experiment station nt at Amherst has carried c on extensive ex- ex f eding trials on the value alue ot of different feeds for fOl raising young Joung calves Experiments with calf meals and preliminary trIals with skim milk powder Jowder were reported In Bulletin No 2 The powdered skim milk offered the most fruitful field iel for further study and during the past three years n a large number ot of calves mostly h high b grade HolsteIns have ha been raIsed on It Although a little more expensive e ethan than liquid skim milk the pow powder er has hns the advantage of beIng In n a form that will keep for u a long period ot of titre It can usually he be obtained when liquid skim milk cannot be and Is much cheaper than whole mill milk In the early arly experiments the ma maximum maxi maxi- l. l mum amount ot of shim s im milk powder ounces ounces of the Ilse dry powder 9 quarts of lIquid was fed dally until un un- til the calves cs were four months old DurIng the past year calves es have e been reared on much smaller quantities quantities ties of the powder the object ct beIng to cut time the cost The procedure has Ims been similar to what was followed In our earlIer work except that when the calves wele tvete two months ot of age theIr dally daily allowance of skIm milk power powder was cut to 21 ounces EG O quarts of liquId and lIt at three months was again cutto cut cutto to ounces 3 quarts ot of liquId and a special effort was mae made nil all through the experiment to Induce the calves to eat eal of the dry grain mixture and rower rowen The be calves made nn an average daily gain of 14 pounds at a cost of n a pound ab about ut 1225 pounds of the dry milk being fed ed to each ach calf calt Growth was practically the same ns as when the larger quantity of powder was fed and the cost costa a vas less lessened ned appreciably ably It Is probable that calves will require rather rn more re skin skIm milk powder than thon the amount nice men above Under Uner present conditions dried drieci skim milk fed as above e suggested offers of of- fers the best substitute for liquid skim milk In the rearing of young calves Calf CalC meals nr fairly satisfactory satis- satis factory but are apt to cause cau e di digestive esthe disturbances md and do not promote ns as rapId growth gr |