Show LITTLE MILK IS NEEDED FOR CALF youngster Is early taught to eat hay and grain although whole milk Is often marketed leaving little skim milk for feeding it Is no longer necessary to be handicapped in raising at least enough calves on dairy farms to take care of replacements in the herd for feeders and animal husbandmen have found that they can ralso raise thrifty calves successfully and uso use only about pounds of salable whole milk in doing it the general method of feeding calves Is practically the same tor for all dairy breeds reports I 1 W rupel in charge of the work at the wisconsin college of agriculture the calf Is given a start on whole milk for a few weeks and during this time Is taught to eat hay 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 aso associates clates have also found that one schedule was most successful for and brown swiss while another schedule had bad to be worked out for guernsey and jerseys the meth method odthe the workers found best for the 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 tho the calf to take by the end of the first week nine pounds until it was six weeks old and then the allowance was gradually reduced until at the end of the seventh week no milk was fed the process for the other three breeds was slightly more complicated the calves were left with the mother for three to tour four days and then were pall fed nt at the rate of six pounds dally daily for two weeks when the amount was war increased to seven pounds dally daily for five weeks at after ter the calves were seven weeks old the milk was reduced gradually until at nine weeks no milk was fed because the calves must get along without milk it was found that it la Is necessary that the feeds given be highly palatable and nutritious the protein supply must be especially liberal er aland 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 |