Show SKIM MILK RATION FAVORED greatest gain in weight made when calf Is fed large quantities Quan title in dou daily rinse ration how hire much skim milk should be red fed to miles calces dalle results obtained bal tied thus far at the dairy it Is to experiment farm belts ville bid indicate that calves will make the gains in weight when hen led fed comparatively targe large quanta t M of shim k m niilo ilk dalla baliv one fifth or of tair aroi ma their bod d weight or all they will drink but bill that the most economical gains are made ro on smaller in nn an experiment to determine the aft of feeding various quantities or of kint milk 16 calves vere mers divided into in groups p of 1 four calves calve mh each T thear beb grm groups A were m balanced as A nearly as caf pable with reference to be breed it and adv weight eight at birth one group grap was gneo allen a dally fly ration tell of one a seventh of the bot weight tin the quantity being regu can latch by body weights taken every ten to dars two other groups were red fed at abr rate at of oae sath and one fifth of their body weights or an I 1 the fourth group was A given all the milk the calves would old drink twice a dv each calr if received 1 tea 1 mothers milk until it was 18 ten davs do old the th change to skim milk was nas then the made ads gradually gdal lv and at the age of fifteen dava dam the calf was on go an out entyre bilm lt milk calao the experiment rin nn tor for 70 das da s weights obtained for far three consecutive davs dars at the end of the 70 day period were taken le the line final weights th the ise average go from each group are am given in tubular tabular form milk bulk per D dally I 1 per ins pound raft oh or 1 reat fim gain da day gain axis G group 1 one bath of L abi lo lb lb ilba j body weight A 0 35 13 a 52 H hi group glenn i I 1 anne of r body light 1 0 is 16 as 99 US if group I 1 I 1 one mth or of body boar weight IX in AN 30 as IT 17 G group no 4 ten all they would drink I 1 is a a of 16 a th the groups we were well balanced as regards weight and thrift of the ciss the get galas increased iab the quan t alty I 1 ty of skim milk flit fed the calves w inch re reid received i d all they would drink making gains at least 50 per cent longer than those at the rate of ones of their body weight to 0 do this they drunk drank about i 80 per cent mo more inelli As a consequence the skim milk miel required for one pound of gain won greater glister with will the heavily red fed calces no bad results from he heavy fertile feeding were ars noticed although all 11 of the mise calves 4 if heavy skim milk rations it has been found are am beneficial for far calve in group 4 with our one exception drunk drank at times time more than 40 pounds of atno milk a day ay this leads us to believe that overfeeding over citing feeding Is not in itself a man corn in mon cause of liet scours airs |