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Show RATIONS FOR DAIRY CALVES Little Bloodmeal Frequently Recommended Recom-mended as Preventive and Cure for Calf Scours. That while linseed meal sometimes gives very excellent results, yet on the whole other preparations are to be preferred, pre-ferred, says Hoard's Dairyman. Corn, barley, oats and bran are recommended recommend-ed for this purpose. With the young calf a mixture of low grade flour,, sieved ground oats, cornmeal or linseed lin-seed oil meal made into a jelly by boiling, continuing-such feed for two or three weeks, while the stomach is small and incapable of utilizing coarser feeds, is suggested. As soon as possible, however, change to whole corn or whole oats with or without a little oil meal fed dry. Among other mixtures proposed is one consisting of 20 pounds of corn-meal, corn-meal, 20 pounds of oatmeal,- 20 pounds of oilmeal, 10 pounds of bloodmeal, 6 pounds of 'bonepieal. Change to corn, oats and bran when calves are three months old. A little of tthe bloodmeal as a part of the dairy ration ra-tion is very frequently recommended. It seems to have in some way a tonic effect, and is also claimed to be both a preventive and a cure for calf scours. |