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Show Not Profitable to Feed Dairy Calf Whole Milk It Is readily recognized that at present prices of dairy products, dairy I calves cannot be fed economically on i whole milk over a long period. It is also true that approximately 45 per cent of the dairy cows In the United States are found on farms producing whole milk for condenserles, cheese factories, powdered milk factories and for the market milk trade. On these farms the milk brings a high price; In many cases $3 to $4 a hundred pounds sometimes more. A calf requires an average of about 15 pounds of whole milk a day until four months old. This amounts to. 1,800 pounds. If valued at even such a low price as $3 a hundred, the milk alone costs $34. This does not Include In-clude the cost of hay and grain consumed con-sumed In addition to the milk. Farmers making a business of selling sell-ing whole milk do not have skim milk for feeding purposes and the common practice Is to kill the bull calves at once or sell them for veal. Unfortunately, too. often the heifer calves are also disposed of In the same way. In such cases the herd must ; be replenished by buying mature ma-ture cows. |
