Show SOUR SKIM MILK FOR CALVES IN SUMMER there Is great need of precaution in this manner of feeding feed at once that calves do as well or better on sour skim milk la in summer as they do arr on sweet will be interesting news to many farmers who have hitherto been kept from raising calves by the expense of keeping the milk sweet la in hot weather this expense experiments carried out by the department of agriculture indicate to be quite unnecessary the calves will make as rapid gains on sour skim milk in winter 1 ater this Is not as satisfactory it chills the calves and some of them drink it with great reluctance very few young calves ba have ve ever been known to refuse it altogether on the other hand of course it Is much easier to keep the tha milk sweet in winter but there la Is need of precaution la this matter of summer feeding of milk unless the milk Is produced and kept under cleanly conditions it may become contaminated with disease pro bacteria farmers should therefore allow the milk to sour quickly and then teed feed it without delay in the course of the experiments sour skim milk Is fed to 22 calves holsteins jerseys and at different seasons of the year in no case did it cause digestive disturbances even even when the change from sweet to sour milk was made abruptly when the calves were only a few days old moreover no evil results followed the alternate use of sweet and sour milk it seems therefore that the comm common on conception that sour milk leads to scours Is quite unfounded it Is in the care of the milk the calves it was found did not like the sour milk as well as the sweet swee t but in iii the majority of cases soon became accustomed to it the aversion however increased when the milk was waa fed them at low temperature |