Roosevelt Standard | 1924-08-20 | Page 2 | Saving Can be Made on Calf Raising Expense

saving can be made on calf raising expense six calves have been raised s successfully 1 acce s at university farm at st paul minn by using rising skim milk powder in place of ordinary sum milk the experiment peri ment was in charge of dr 0 11 IL eckles chief of the dIv division Islon of dairy husbandry and T W gullickson Gull ichson a member of his staff the change from the whole milk to the skim shim milk powder was N as made at the age of three weeks they report at the end of GO CO days clays the shim milk powder was wag gradually withdrawn i from the ration from the nse of 70 days the calves were fell fed alfalfa liay buy find a standard grain mixture at six months of age they were somewhat below normal but attil attained ned the normal condition in both weight and height by tile the age aga of eight months of powdered skim mill milk a added to 0 90 00 pounds of water will make of normal skim milk the powder can be bought for 10 cents the pound the grain ration consisted of four parts of corn one of bran and one obe of linseed this mixture serves the purpose just is as well weil as more expensive commercial calf Ille meals says doctor ackles a to raise the calf with the minimum amount of milk was the motive of ofa r 1 ir the hillh of 45 oo 00 every loo cows kept in tho U slates Is sold as whole milk D eckles hiis owners of dairies milk Is marketed in ahn way ire are fronted frontell fron teil ly by a serious pr problem in ins ing tile the necessary number of calves ma to maintain their berds if no calves are raised anti and the former farmer must buy what he be needs there Is constant danger of disease and hla his herd seldom ampro lm es from year to behr ye Hr s