A HOMEMADE DEVICE FOR FEEDING CALVES.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 1

A HOMEMADE DEVICE FOR FEEDING CALVES.

v dairy farmer writing to Hoard's Dairyman," thus describes a simple home-made device for feeding young calves:— ■

Physicians urge us to chew our food if we are to avoid stomach troubles and indigestion. Failure to masticate or mix the food with saliva in the mouth means that part of it will not be digested. What is true with humans is true' with calves whose diet is milk. You say they cannot chew their milk? Yes, but they can and they do when they get it as nature intended they should. When they suckle it from their mother theyget it more slowly and the milk is mixed with secretions of the mouth before being swallowed.

I have found that it pays me to ; have. conditions as' similar to nature as possible. Calves fed on the home-madefeeders I have are strangers to scouring, which is simply indigestion. * At the drug store I get some big sheep nipples. Then I saw out circular pieces of half-inch boards, with diameters | slightly smaller than the pails in which lie calves are fed. Such a device can be made in a few minutes. Place the float on the top of the milk in the pail. The calf-will take hold of the nipple and begin to'suck; Asfasfas the milk towers, the float feeder -sinks down with it until the pail is empty.