Show grain mixtures useful for feeding the calves bran and cracked corn make very good calf feed and whenever possible they should form the basis of the grain mixture ground oats are likewise good but because they are usually high in price as compared with other farm grains their use lg Is not general corn has a desirable effect on calves and to a certain extent replaces the butterfat removed from the milk many tests prove cracked more desirable than when finely ground by the time a calf Is two weeks old it will start nibbling grain if given a chance find and at one month will eat half a pound a day in case a mixture of feeds Is desired thre are several good ones 1 three parts cracked corn and one part wheat bran 2 three parts cracked corn one part wheat bran and one part ground oats 3 three parts cracked corn one part wheat bran one purt part ground oats and one part oll meal 4 five parts cracked corn on one e part ground oats and one part blood mial peed feed grain dry in troughs immediately after the calves have finished drinking their milk calves three months old will eat about three pounds of grain a day |