WHAT DOES A CALF COST TO REAR?
Calves, hko houses, are often, cheaper to buy than-to build. - One cannot; at the moment, reoall any New/ Zealand experiment to determine the actual cost of'roaring a calf ' ,America. has done so.Professor Shaw, of .Michigan, took a dairy calf and kept an accurate account of the expense of feeding forone year, from its birth. The amounts :of,-feeds,used .in that timo were 3811b. of whole ,milk, 25631b.0f skim milk, 12621b. of silage, 2191b. of beet pulp; 12541b. > of hay,. 12471b. of gram, 1171b. of roots, 141b. .or alfalfa? meal, ; and 501b. of-grcon corn. The igrain v ration : consisted:-; of;. three ; parts each .of. corn, and lo'ats and 'ione part of bran and ; oilmeal. • -At the. end of tho year the calf weighed, 8001b,, at a cost of about £6 for feed. , Tho calf was a Holstein.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 486, 20 April 1909, Page 3
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142WHAT DOES A CALF COST TO REAR? Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 486, 20 April 1909, Page 3
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