Show meal for the calf the following ingredients make up a good meal for a calf thirty parts ground oats 20 parts ground yellow corn ten parts wheat bran ten parts linseed oil meal 10 parts blood flour one part sterilized bone flour and one part salt sall if desired one may use the same amount of powdered skim milk to replace the blood flour one may mix his own calf meal but unless one Is raising calves in considerable numbers and perhaps not even then it Is doubtful it if there Is any economy in it especially in view of the fact that the commercial calf meals are more scientifically prepared and balanced than the average dairyman can make his own mixture A calf should be provided with good leafy hay bay pasture silage or other hages and succulents as early as it will begin bagin to nibble making it possible to discontinue the calf meal when the calf Is five to six months of age prior to which time it will have been taking as high as five pounds a day idaho farmer |