CALF FEEDING.
When one to two weeks old the calf should lie taught to cat concentrates. Such feeds as maize meal, sieved ground oats. Tiarley meal, bran, pollard, and linseed meal' alone or in mixture, may be placed in tho bottom of the pail after the calf Ms finished drinking its milk. Some dairymen add the concontrates to tho milk, but this is inadvisable, for they are. then less thoroughly mixed with (lie naliva. The dull calf may be taught to /•at the concent rates bv rubbing a little nn it:; muzzlo when it has consumed tho milk. Having learned the. (aste for concentrates the calf should be fed ils allowance dry from a convenient feedhox. Until it becomes accustomed lo tho new article r<f diet, u supply of concentrates may be .kept before it. After Ibis only as much {'should be fed as will bo eaten up, and the .feed box should be cleared out regularly. At six'weeks of age the calf will usually eat aquartor of u pound of con* Ssntrates a day fl
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 20
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176CALF FEEDING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 20
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