Show LITTLE MILK IS NEEDED NEI EDED FOR CALF youngster Is early taught t to eat hay and grain although w hole milk la Is often marketed leaving little salm milk tor for feeding it Is no longer necessary to be handicapped in raising at least enough calves on dairy farms to take cure care of replacements in the herd for feeders and animal husbandmen have found that they can raise thrifty calves successfully and use only about pounds of salable whole milk in doing it the general method of feeding calves Is practically the same for all dairy breeds reports L W rupel lo in charge of the work at the wisconsin college of agriculture the calf lg Is given a start on whole milk for a few weeks and during this time Is taught to eat bay and concentrates thrifty calves are then gradually taken off the milk and continued on concentrates cen hay water and salt but in their experiments rupel and his bis associates have also found that one schedule was most success ful for Hoi holsteins steins and drown brown swiss while another schedule had to be worked out for and jerseys the method the workers found best bee for or the holsteins and brown swiss was to leave the calf with the mother for three days and then to pall teed feed whole milk by gradually getting the calf to take by the end of thi the first week nine dine pounds until it was six weeks beeks old aid and then the allowance was as gradually reduced until at the end of the seventh week no milk u was as fed tiie the process for the other three breeds was slightly more complicated the calves were left with the mother for three to tour four days ind and then were pail pah fed at the rate of six pounds dally daily for two weeks when the amount was inas in as increased to seven pounds daily for five weeks after the calves were seven weeks old the th milk was reduced gradually ira dually until at no milk was fed because the calves must get along without milk it was found that it Is necessary that the feeds given be highly palatable and nutritious the protein supply must be especially liberal libera era and so the concentrates need to carry a high proportion of protein rich feeds the experts also found that the hay bay needs to be of the highest quality obtainable preferably clover or alfalfa |