FATTENING CALVES.
Last year the Dresden Agricultural Society offered a prize for the calf that would weigh the heaviest twelve months after its birth. Five farmers completed, and the calves were the progeny of local breeds, pure or crossed. The commencing weights of the calves varied from 291 b to 601 b, and finished at 2341 b and 3841 b. Some of the animals increased daily in weights by others by lib. Generally the calves avere allowed to suckle till five weeks old ; then they received three or four quarts of milk daily, with buck wheat, rye, oten or oiled drinks, green fodder, hay, bran, Ac., following growth. One calf was allowed to suckle two cows for three months, and then on washes, bruised maize, Ac. ; its opening weight was 501 b, and 384 on the close of the year. Two important factors were omitted in the contest —the quantity of nutriment consumed, and its cost price, as represented in the product—veal. However, it was demonstrated that during the early stages of growth it pays to feed animals well, and that care ought to be taken not to suddenly alter the dietary from slops to solids. In Holland, report speaks highly of cocoa-meal, Ac., for feeding stock.
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume I, Issue 91, 3 February 1880, Page 4
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