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Show WHEY IS OF LITTLE BENEFIT Where Taken Back to Farm From Cheese Factory It Is Usually in No Condition for Calves. Whey may be fed to calves successfully, success-fully, but even under best conditions results do not warrant strong recommendation. recom-mendation. Where whey is taken back to the farm from the cheese factory it usually must be fed in fermented or Bour condition and is not fit for calves. Whey contains a little larger proportion propor-tion of fat than is found in skim milk and a little more sugar, but only aboul one-fourth as much protein. Most of the food value of the milk goes into the cheese. In feeding whey to calves add a grain ration that replaces as far as possible the matter removed in the cheese. Corn supplements skim milk, but with whey oil meal is to be preferred. pre-ferred. Mix half a pound oil meal to a gallon of sweet warm whey and feed 1 like skim milk. Where it is necessary to raise the calf on whey, you had best feed whole milk until the calf is six weeks old and then change gradually to whey. Sonns feeders prefer giving the grain dry. There are a number of calf meals on the market, of which oil meal or ground flax seed is usually an , important constituent, and these can be used successfully to supplement whey and skim milk. |