Show Feed Calves Enough but Dont Don't Overfeed Do Best if Kept Just a Little Bit Hungry Feed the calves enough but dont don't overfeed o them The They will do lIo better If It kept Just a n little hungry OverfeedIng Overfeed Ing lug causes digestive troubles These are some of the suggestions made by the department of animal husbandry of ot the tile New York State Agricultural college at ut Ithaca on the raising and care of calves The first thing to remember says flays the college Is that no calf culf should he be raised for dairy use unless It comes of ot first class IJ parentage from parentage from a u purebred purebred pure pure- bred sire and a producing high dam darn Granting this heritage the dairy calf eaU will respond to and should receive careful handling bundling It Is best est to let the calves stay with their mothers for 1 0 two or three lays days after birth Then they should be taught to drink from a n bucket Cure Care should hould be lie taken to see that the pail Is clean for as ns every ever farmer knows calves are subject to digestive dis dis- orders The calf should get from C G to 12 pounds of whole milk daily dally for the first three weeks and then may be gradually switched over to skim milk and a little grain Most farmers find I It best to give the calf Its It grain Immediately Immediately immediately Im Im- im- im mediately after It has finished drinking the milk A good concentrate allowance allow allow- I mince ance will contain muscle ane and bone- bone I L 1 1 UL v Win A VULt some fat to replace a part of that abstracted from the milk Here are arc three rations which have been found good I ICorn Corn 3 parts bran 3 parts oats 7 parts oil meal 1 part Corn 5 G parts larts oats or bran brim 3 parts oil meal 1 part Oats 3 parts bran 1 part oil meal 1 part |