CALF REARING RULES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 430, 13 January 1912, Page 3

CALF REARING RULES.

- Sometimes the experimental work in connection with dairying, although good on the whole, is so elaborately drawn out and so confusedly mixed up, that its useful points are clouded in an array of ill-ordered, as well as not infrequently irrelevant verbiage. Hence, says tne Leader when one comes across a good, practical systematically ordered summary giving the essential punits, such is all the more appreciated because it can be put out and kept for ready reference. Among the rare exceptions is the condensed results published by the Newton-Rigg Farm in Cumberland, where, out of 265 calves born, all have been successfully reared on practically separated milk and a minimum of whole milk, with only the loss of eight. The following are the Newton-Rigg directions, as founded on the results of practice during the past ten years:— 1. Calves should be fed v»ith great regularity. 2. Dietary changes should be brought about gradually 3. A dry and comfortable hed should always be available, and this is best secured by a bottom layer of moss litter (an inch or so) covered with straw.

4. If at any time a calf hesitates to take its milk, at once remove the milk, and administer a tablespoonful of castor oil, shaken up with twice as much hot water; this generally sets matters right, even when white scour is commencing.