. Elementary agriculture . Fuj. 11. An empty dinner pail. fattening foods for a few months before they are sold to the butcher or the packer. Feeding Meal. When teaching a young calf to eat meal, the farmer puts him in a box stall with another, older calf, and the young one will learn from his companion. Another way is to take a little meal in the hand and put the hand in the mouth of the young calf. (Fig. 11.) A Mixed Food. A good meal ration for calves is a bushel of ground corn, a bushel of ground oats, a peck and a half of wheat bran, and the same of oil meal, all well mixed. As soon as ca
. Elementary agriculture . Fuj. 11. An empty dinner pail. fattening foods for a few months before they are sold to the butcher or the packer. Feeding Meal. When teaching a young calf to eat meal, the farmer puts him in a box stall with another, older calf, and the young one will learn from his companion. Another way is to take a little meal in the hand and put the hand in the mouth of the young calf. (Fig. 11.) A Mixed Food. A good meal ration for calves is a bushel of ground corn, a bushel of ground oats, a peck and a half of wheat bran, and the same of oil meal, all well mixed. As soon as calves will take hay or fodder, it should be given to them. They will begin to nibble and taste it when two or three weeks old. The best hay is clover, alfalfa, or cow peas. As soon as they begin to chew the cud, finely cut hay is mixed with the meal. In this way one can prepare the calf for weaning. (Fig. 12.)
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