DEBASED TASTES IN CATTLE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 3

DEBASED TASTES IN CATTLE

Any person vrbo has watched! a mob : of "separator cajves," product of a dairy ! farm; on their way to market, will ap- j predate an article contributed to tho ! Leader by a stock inspector on debased tastes in cattle. "No doubt the very ! foundation of the trouble," he says, ,"is : laid in the poor skimmed milk fed calf. Few get a drop of whole milk, and with ' f«w exceptions, nothing is done bo make up the absence of butter-fat, which r«- 1 suits in debased taste for foreign sub- 1 stances. Th© result is evidenced by their potbellied appearance, the thin, anaemic! and dejected look, followed frequently by diarrhoea. A large percentage die young, ' and if opened the third- stomach will often be found dry and 1 impacted with • material that has probably been in the leaves several months. The very con- ' fitruction of the .mouths and stomachs of all our ruminants shows that a. constant • supply of rich, soft food h what they ' need to sustain them in full vigor and ' health. In tfie case of the calf the first aim ought to be to make up for loss of butter-fat, and an English . authority states he had great success, extending over years, by adding cotton seed oil and a little fresh Halt to separator milk and allowing ithe calves to suck through rub- ' bar teats three 4ames daily. Calves . should always be fed through teats; ' when the milk is sucked in this way the saliva of the mouth is mixed with it, passing into the stomach it aids di- 1 gestion and prevents fermentation. The Leader advises the feeding of wheaten ! straw chaff to cows, mixed with bran and salt, the chaff to "be well coaked for six hours before feeding; and a onp of molasses to each feed will keep the digestive organs in good working order,, when green feed is scarce. Many cow, keepers say this- course alone has prevented impactlon of £he third , stomacE - and. paralysis of the digestive organs, > from which the cat/tie oa dry country so often die. . . . - I

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