Milk Required to Raise a Dairy Calf (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Milk Required to Raise a Dairy Calf The calves were allowed to remain with their dams during the first twenty-four hours, and were then removed and weighed. Dur ing the first four days they were fed their mothers' milk according to appetite, care being taken to keep them from overfeeding. After this they were fed whole and skim milk in the amounts shown in the tables. In all cases the milk was fed clean and warm as it came from the separator; had it been allowed to become contaminated or had it been fed cold or sour, digestive trouble would surely have been the result. As most farmers will not take sufficient trouble to properly use substitutes for milk, if at all, none were used in this experiment. The calves were transferred from milk to a ration composed of grain, clover hay, and pasture, thus making the data acquired more directly applicable to ordinary farm conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.