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Show Use Grain Mixture That . Adds Weight to Calves The dairy division ut University farm. Minnesota, lias been conducting some experimental work whereby the dairyman who sells whole, milk niay find a solution for calf feeding problems prob-lems The results of the experiments indirxte that calves can be raised suc-cussfully suc-cussfully on a grain mixture of four parts ground corn, one part linseed meal, one part bran, and a legume roughage alfalfa hay after being - weaned from their milk diet at the early age of 50 to GO days. The hay and grain should be placed before the calves when they are very young, the object being to "get them started on dry feed as soon as possible, and to give them all the feed of this kind they will ctean up. Best results are obtained by feeding the hay and grain in about equal qualities. One of the calves in these experiments experi-ments was weaned at the age of GO days and thereafter fed grain mixture and alfalfa hay. At the end of the trial this calf weighed 377 pounds and was 10-f.l per cent normal. Another calf weaned at the age of 45 days was ' . . raised on -461 pounds of milk" and' ft grain jnixtui-e.and.ulfalfa .hay. At 15S days old it weighed 335 pounds and was 10G.3 per cent normal. Minnesota College ) Agriculture. |