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DOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTTON
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L ivestock and D airy
Facts About Care of Farmers’ Feeders and Aids to Greater Milk Production.
not much less than 300 pounds of but­ up clean. Keep salt and fresh water the thing that will prevent indigestioR
before the calf daily from the first.
prevents the common seonrs.
ter fat.
Feed in Stall.
Such cows are generally produce®
When the ealf begins to feed daintflyy
Yon can’t let calve» rustle
By all means do all the feeding of mess with its feed, the eye usually bw>
and reared along the following lines.
9 anyway they like if you want to
Assuming the calf to be well bred and the calves in stalls or stanchions. These gins to loose its brilliancy, its hair bn-
<v have fine dairy stock. A calf is
otherwise satisfactory at birth, many save labor and feed, and are a great gins to stare or stand on end, and thn
just the same as a child. Neglect
successful dairymen find it to ue the aid in the prevention of sickness and e a lf’s general demeanor begins to
<s> it when young and you will rue
better practice to permit the calf to the forming of bad habits like sucking change. The calf ought now to receivn
it when i t ’s old. If you want to
ears, teats, etc., and are not expensive. immediate iXtention. Give two raw
suck the dam for its first feed.
<•> get some live, up to the-minute
<4 ideas on how to care for
the <4 1 lie first milk—the colostrum—pos­ After a very few days, at feeding time, eggs, shell and all by placing one at •
<4 young calves in the dairy read 4 sesses both medicinal and nutritive the calves will be found waiting in the time in its mouth, and forcing the jaws
•» Professor Blanchard ’» article
4 qualities important to the c a lf’s great stanchions. They are first offered their closed with the hands, thus crushing the
milk after which the grain and hay is egg. If the calf should begin to geonr
<4 herewith.
4 est needs.
given them. Later they are released, give one ounce of castor oil with a tea­
Remove Calf Promptly.
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when they will have forgotten the na­
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The calf ought then to be promptly tural desire to suck and tease each spoonful of cerolin and 20 grains of sub­
removed to a well ventilated, dry and other. Wean the calves from milk at nitrate of bismuth. Repeat the bis­
BY H. L. BLANCHARD,
muth and creolin with a cup of strong
Assistant Superintendent, Washington sanitary stall, away from the dam. The six months of age, continue feeding oats coffee and flaxseed tea every four
stall should have a window to admit the
State Experiment Station.
in some form, and in the absence of hours.
sunlight and the floor ought frequently
HE best bunch of grade heifer fall to be covered with dry and fresh bed good past re feed them soiling crops
calves that the writer ever saw ding. After several hours and when the liberally. Silage, roots ,-nd hay should
Manufacturers have fonnd that red
were fed and cared for under tjie di­ calf becomes hungry it should be taught be fed along similar lines as to the dairy
rection of a girl about 14 years of age. to drink from the pail, by coaxing and cow. Breed the heifer at the age of alder from the Paeifie Coast is a suit­
A part of the girl’» compensation was not by forcing methods. Any practice 16 to 18 months. Continue to feed her able material for clothespins. Alder
to be her choice of one of the calves that would be calculated to develop a for growth and the fullest development, makes a white, smooth, springy pin. As
at the age of six months. One condi­ stubborn and timid disposition in the beiug careful that at no time she be­ a result of this fact, a clothespin fac­
tion of the agreement was that there calf ought carefully to be avoided. Cul­ comes stunted. As freshening time ap­ tory, said to be tho first on the Paeifie
should be no sickness among the calves tivate the c a lf’s affections. Offer the proaches nandle her frequently, much Coast, may be established at Portland*
as if she was producing milk, and thus Oregon.
caused by mistakes in feeding or care.
ealf the dam's milk freshly drawn. By
gradually accustom her to the changes
The girl won and seeured the calf, which
placing a finger wet with the milk on
that are to come. The heifer’s disposi­
she sold fer $50.
LOSStS SURELY FREVENTtO
the c a lf’s nose and repeating a few
hy Cattar*« Black la« H lla .
Lm r-
These calves were never neglected, times if necessary the calf will follow tion when sha becomes a cow has been
• r l r s d . frani». r e lU M a : yraforrad h f
W w tiarn atockmen ber a un * thay ara-
and were kept under elean and sani­ with its nose the finger into the pail and very largely moulded by the care taken. w
tw t
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v a w la n
fa ll.
tary conditions. They were fed reg­ begin to drink. By practicing patience Kind and gentle treatmeut generally
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IS -k e w H e B lw k le f e tile gl.SS
devélopes
a
kind
and
docile
disposition.
ularly, especial care being taken not to
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S e -S *M H a * B la ek lef S iila «.SS
tho feeder soon has the calf taught to
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TTw any talw-tnr. but C u t i« '« b w t
over feed, so they were kept thrifty, in­ drink from the pail and with continued On the contrary, harshness and cruelty
•rh« r a s e rlo rltr o( r u t t a r pro.lurt» l i t u , u orar l ì
reare nr apertaltzlng In vaaalnaa and aaruaia aaly.
insures a kicking and vicious animal, re
creasing in weight every day. While
Inalai aa C u tta r'n
i r „n n M a ln a b l-, u r la r direct.
kindness no further trouble need be tenting every questionable incident
feeding, the calves were fastened in
T H E C U T T E R L A B 0 R A T 0 R Y , Sarkalay. C a U lere l«.
feared
in
this
matter.
about the stables by holding her milk,
calf stanchions, and at the end of six
The ealf is a delicate creature and
and becoming generally disorderly.
months the girl knew just the amount
should be nursed with great care in or­
o f feed-—milk, hay, gr.in, etc., that
Indigestion and Scours.
der that i.igestion troubles may be
each one had eaten. The feed cost was
There are but very few dairymen and
wholly avoided
Generally sueh trou­
about $12.00 per call and the labor
bles are produced either by over feeding stockmen who have not had more or
averaged about six minutes per day per
less experience with digestion troubles*
calf—-less than 20 hours labor per calf or feeding in unclean pails.
Sometimes the dam’s milk is very and scours among their animals—espe
for the six months. All of the feeds
rich, when only a little should be given, cially the calves. Under natural and
were raised on the farm, excepting a
sanitary conditions calves usually re
few pounds of flaxseed meal, and a sack and thus avoid a bad case of indiges main healthy. Indigestion is generally
tion.
of shorts that was fed while teaching
At all times it is better to under feed the result of mistakes or carelessness of
the calves to eat grain.
MILLIONS OF
a little than to over feed. Feed whole the feeder, such as wi and dirty pens,
Raise Well Bom Calves
milk for about ten days and then grad irregularity in feeding, over feeding, SACKS SACKS SACKS
Only the well-born calves should be oally change to skim milk. At three cold milk, sour milk, dirty pails, and
Write Us for Pries
raised for dairy purposes. Premature weeks the whole milk may safely be the like. The obvions thing to do is
births ought to be discarded.
Such omitted.
for the feeder not to make mistakes
ALASKA JUN K CO.
calves very rarely develop into profit
1120 First Avenue, Seattle, Wash.
During the change a little flaxseed and to nurse the calf with much care.
able cows. They are usually lacking in jelly ean be added to the milk, begin Common scours follow indigestion, hence
aerve force, vigor and stamiua. The ning with a tablespoonful and ending
calf worth raising will have no less with a half a pint, at a feed.
This
than fonr teeth completely cut through jelly is prepared by cooking the flax
tho gums at birth and should have four seed meal in water in the proportion of
teats of reasonable size and placed about one to six by measure. Small
widely apart. It is desirable that the calves ought at first to receive not more
heifer develop a large and well shaped than three to four quarts of whole milk
udder, which properly placed teats pro­ while large calves may receive from
mise.
five to six quarts daily.
Since “ TIMES ARE HARD,’ ’ now is the time for you ts
The calf intended for the dairy should
The quantity may in each case be
realize a profit on your old bundle of freight bills that you have
be well cared for and at no time ne­
gradually
increased
until
at
the
age
of
perhaps regarded as nothing more than waste paper.
glected. It 1- not much of a trick to
Do yon know that the Height and express charges that you
raise a calf that will develop into a six weeks the amount may have doubled
Skim
pay are many times in error, due to oversight on the part of tbs
producer of 3,000 to 4,000 ponnds of which may well be the lim it
clerk in assessing proper charges, or to errors in classification,
milk or 150 to 200 pounds of butter fat milk had best be fed as soon as it
weights, ete., ami that which yon pay to the transportation com-
comes
from
the
separator
while
it
still
per year, provided the parent stock
f l k i ii e s in excess of what actually belongs to them for their services
retains
the
animal
beat.
were good cows.
under their legally published tariff rates amounts to considerable
Cold milk is dangerous feed for the
Such low producers may result from
money that yon might count as profits in tho conduct of your
business! It is a fart that unless business concerns, however
Improper practices in feeding, thereby ealf under fonr or five months of age.
Feed
skim
milk
warmed
at
90
to
95
de
small, employ expert rate and traffic men to look after their trans­
causing uigestivs disorders, limiting the
portation affairs they lose annnallv a large amount of money that
ealf's ration to skim milk alone after green relying upon the thermometer, not
could be saved. OUR BUSINESS IS TO SAVE THIS MONEY
tuj first week, feeding in dirty pails, the finger. Do not feed the calves milk
FOR YOU FROM YOUR OLD FREIGHT BILLS.
confining the calf to a wet and un­ from tubercular cows Creamery skim
We can greatly benefit you and your business as a member of
sanitary stall, and weaning the ealf milk ought to be treated before being
this association, our staff of traffic experts are the best that
from the s!.im milk and tam ing to fed to calves or pigs by heating for 20
money can produce, and we are sating merchants throughout the
grass at about three months of age, to to 30 minutes at a temperature of 150
country thousands of doll- ” yearly in overcharges found on ex­
to
160
degrees
Fahreinhcit—to
kill
the
rustle a very large part of i«e living
pense bills which were erroneously charged by the railroads and
bacteria present in the milk.
Until its first calf is born.
express companies. A membership in this association entities you
Ihree Feeds Daily.
to these savings, together with such further servieee as quota­
bnccumbs to Neglect.
tion of rates, routing of freight to receive lowest rates, collection
Divide the milk into three feeds
Yet many farmers persist in raising
of loss and damage claims, Interstate Commerce Complaints, and
their caiv.s along the lines indicated daily for the ealf for the first week,
many other services beneficial to merchants.
•bove, and at the same time know very afterwards two feeds daily. Feed milk
The cost of membership is only $10.00 for the first year*«
well that any other ixrm crop so ne­ until the calf is six nonthe old. At
serviee; the second year’s service does sot eoet yon anything in
five
or
six
weeks
of
age
the
calf
will
glected would not t e worth harvesting.
cash, as we take $7.50 to cover the second year ’• serviee fro«
The calf gucenmbs to neglect and mis­ eat hav and grain. Let it have all it
the overcharge« found in the expense bills only, and wn further
takes just as surety and permarently as will cat of both, after drinking its milk.
guarantee to refund to von under our contract more than tbs
nmonnt of cash that you originally pay for the membership.
do the other crops of the farm. With Do not feed the grain in the milk. Equal
the other crops, however, one can eor parts by measure of bran, corn meal j
Let us have your application today.
rect his mistake the following year and and ground oats makes a first class |
thus considerably reduce his loss, but grain mixture for the ealf. Sprinkle a i
with the ealf years elapse before the little of the grain on tho month or j
loss becomes evident, and many years tongue of the ealf a few times when i t 1 TUB TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAFFIC ARSOCI ATION,
more will be needed to repair the dam will soon become to like it and eat
A ll A1S Panam a B uilding, Portland, Oregon.
age done. It is therefore equally im freely. Most any bright hay will be
Genti
»men:
portant that the feeding and care of relished. Only feed what the ealf will
I hereby apply for »em b-rebip in the above named Association to recai re
t i e calf from birth if not before birth, eat np clean and thus avoid having the
all of the benefits under year g en er a l m rm h erab ip contract, and I enciuee boro
be proper and right, as it is that the calf form the objectionable bdbit -t
with cheek for $10.00 to eurer membership ( ,a
breeding shall have been right. Those mussing over the feed in search of the
cows that are making money for their choicest bits.
owners today were not greatly neglect
The calf after two or thrro month» of
ed and allowed to shift for themselves age should be provided with roughage
sueh as green elover, alfalfa, oats, mixed
as calves.
.a. . . Addraaa.
To be profitable to tho dairy farmer grasses or roots. Feed but a little at
the eow must produce from 5/590 to a tin s at first, increasing gradually
8,000 pounds of milk that shall contain until the calf getn ail that it will sat
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