KIBBLINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10292, 26 April 1895, Page 4

KIBBLINGS.

A lttlo nonsense now and tben, la elielied by tho wisest meu. Chinese Emperor (nervoubly) : What news? Cffhi&l : Jarao is now anxious for peace. Emperor (gloomily) : Y-e b, bii' how big apioco "That follow Hicks is a queer du^k. Ho nover knows when ho is beaten." "Pooh! Wlut qd absurd man ! Why, even ray littlo boy when I beet him knows it mighty well." '■Good-^o, Old Slow," shouted tl-.o bicycle. -'You aro not ia my clas3." '* Anyway," retorted tho out horso, "I am n las awkward 88 you are. 1 don't fall down standing still." A correspondent writes :— Why do tho DewspaporH head the divorco court reports, Matiiuiotial Suits? lehou'd have thoa.ht Matriaonial Misiits would be more appropriate. __________________ reading of calves. In order to improve his milking herd, it is absolutely necessary for every dairyman to rear a certain number of beifer calves every year. Some find il profitable to rear all the calve a, the rualeß being slaughtered when fit and sent as veal to the metropolitan market, wl.ile the heiforc, or at all events those from the most valuable cows, are kept for inclusion ia the milking herd when old enough. A Jarge nnmber of calves sro therefore annually reared, and the probability is that a » till greater number would bo reared where it not for the want of success which many farmers have had in bringing the youngsters up oa separated milk In many cases where calves are fed on separated milk deaths have frequeutly occured, and tho assertion is of len made th it calves cannot be reared on this food alone. While it is desirable that something in addition to separated milk should bj given, it has nevertheless been proved time and again that calves can be brought up on milk from which tho cream has been extr.ated. The want of success which baa attended the efforts of some people in calf rearing Is moro than likely due to the manner in which the milk is given. '1 he great mistake made in feeding separated milk to calves is the practice of giving sweot milk in the moroing and sour milk ia tho evening. The mi!k is brought back 10 the farm tiom the factory in tho • orooooD, and is then given to the calvea, its condition being warm and eweut '^ it is fresh from the tepirator. Tha portion r serve i for tha evening's meal is most ■ike y kipt in an open vessel, and Iwfnro being usei it has certainly become sour, and probably thick. It is gmn to the ctilv«j;j in this condition, and, as a matter of course, alia-.st invariably produces deiaogeruents which ofien end fatally. Then the ownara say that calves cannot bo j reared on s-parated milk j they have tried I it and failed, and the. c: ore they know. ! Ihefact remains, hosvever, and La 3 boon proved in innumerable instances, thatcalves can be reared on separated milk clone ; but it is undoubtedly bettor to add some fattoning ingredient to the ration, and in every case the milk should bo given in a sweit and palatabla condition. Giving eweet milk in tho morning aud sour milk ia the afternoon iss a practice that ia opposed f o common senee, and it is difficult to ucderstand why anyone can. expe-ct good n. suits from it. Whilo calves can bo reared on separated milk alone, vorr much better results will be ob'ained by lbs addition of some cheap fatty substance that will take tha place of the cteara that haß been extracted. Separated milk does not possess anything like the feeding valu 3 of fresh milk, nor ia it eqaal to milk from which the oream, has , been removed by tho old process of skimming, and therefore some additioc is required to make it a well balanecd food, i'or thia purpose there is nothing better than linseed, which can be grown on nearly every farm in the coloay. Mr A. N. Pearson, Government Agricnltuial Chemist, who has given tae matter aome consideration, stated that linseed gruel, or jelly made by boiling the lineeed in cix times Uu bu'.k of wate*, and then mixing this with three tiina* its balk of skim mi.k, and given blood, warm to the calves, is as fattening a. food 1 as pure nneeparated milk, while at tile Bame timer it ia muoh cheaper, Kape seed, he thinks might be even more valuable than linseed, as it is richer in oil,, but the addition of either is sufficient t» provide a wholesome, fattening ratio* upon which calves will thrive excel ently.. Where raps cr linseed is not a vailable,,exceUent results may bs obtained from, tha use of pollard. Whea in the Port Fairy district a few months ago, 1 visaed the estate of Messrs Ritebie Bro»., who have gone in for dairying oa a large scale, and rear a largo number of calves each year. The food given is separated milk and pollard, and not only do the calves grow satisfactorily on this ration, but they fatten on it. Un coming from the separator the milk is placed in a large iron trough, where it is heated by a jet of steam, and the pollard mixed with it at the rate of a, bncketfal to 100 gallons ■. r.t milk. Care is taken to thoroughly incorporate the pollard with the milk, and the ration ia given to t! c calves at abjut b'ood he^t The system which Mr Fry> \ manager for Messrs Kitchie Bros, follows ! ia to give the culves new milk only for , the first three orfcur days of their iires ; ' f-r the next two or three days half now I milk and ha^f separated milk is gi^en, but I ifter that thsy are taken to t!io calf | docks, graded nccording to.eixo and age, ' and fed solely on separated nulk and poilard. Several paddockß have boon provkleri to that the Jargo and. nuall calves caa bo kept apart, as if they v/e:e allowed to ran ; together the former would bo likely toobtain more than Ihoro share of the food, Lhe calves tre fed until thoy aro five or six inontbs old, when they are turned out to grass and allowed to lind their own livibg. A'jOut once a fortnight a quantity ' "f Chstor oiJ is m xed witu the lued, Air t JRry being a groto t believer in the virtuis ot ibis medicine. If a calf chows sigiis'of Ihesu, it 'a drsod with castor oil, and perhips new milk issuutituted forpolJard in tl.e ration. The reauit of this troatmeat is • that very few deaths occur amongst, the i hrgo number o£ calves reareJ, and the ! ariimals not only grow well, but miintam * ej;ci-}lent condition. It is apparent from the foregoing thu' separated mik, with the addition or po"' / lard, in a gooJ ration for calvea, whiU' if Jinßeed gruel is used, the milk to aU'"j n . tents and purj-csss is as good as if fro- |,!v ' drawn from the cow. In his I ook, The Feeding of Animals, doaliDg with tb a ! aw of animal growth, MrE W. btowart B tates that calves snould be fed as followf f • ij- or the first week give tt.ein wb.lem'rf k'. f or the second week half whole milk g nd'half ' skim milk ; for the tbird to a fi/ t h week ekira milk, together with 4oz ." o f boilad linseed a day, increasing the r«' tjonßt j onB gra . dually nnhl at the beginning of the mtb week they are getting Boz ai the boiled I.nMtd.tojhichmaythwiVe added Boz. % ja^l* lm _?^' ta *bich may.be then added Boa of the 04_ae al, the latter , if»! T-Tf i h'u s m '*<»x* i to lib., and afterwords to 1. ,b. J_ th^ cad o£ t h ree r M D ? lvM r-»»-r -»»-d -with tbie treat- ' ment, Mr Stewwt , MHt -, wei^h 300 1 b. 1 lhe above *»*•_,, X9 < A illvolv9 Uie nB6 i of more whole •_{_; than lhe average far- ( ""ft 1B ?»-{>pixioga factory or creamery , would be w .Hing to giw . - h|l 08e of j,/ : seea grn'j^ obniafct.B t be necessity for neing io ranch bo , a mii k, and -ever/dairy far ] nor ah' j,,},i g TOW a crO p o f ju, Beo j _ or thia '"•"PO^o. _ won d pay haTiiieomely to do °> r >nd i£ the expoit trada ia frozen veal B< Jevekped, ns tuexe is reuon to hope it /ill, Jit seed will play s prormineu; p*rt in < the process of fattening wives for ' the i BJRrk6t,--M<»lbour«ffl bcado,; i