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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 66, 1 April 1902, Page 4

To raise dairy calves successfully there are a number of important points beside feed to consider. A good calf may be fed lots of good milk.and other food, yet if kept in filthy quarters, and fed at irregular intervals, it will not do as well as on less food given at regular times and in a clean dry place. In short, cleanliness and regularity of food have nearly as much to do with the successful raising of calves as food. We often hear men say, “I can’t get my young calves to do well.” When you see the feed pails you Wonder that the calves are alive at all. Often the pails are not washed for days, and as for a scalding, they do not seem to know what that term means. It is absolutely no use to try to raise a calf by feeding it with milk to make [it grow and then allowing enough poison to be mixed with the feed to kill any young animal. Always wash and scald your pails at least once a day. You will find it takes less time than to bother with a sick calf.

A Christchurch paper says : —A piece of wood, about six inches long and two inches in width was taken from the nose of one of the horses belonging to the New Brighton Tramway Company last week. On investigation it was found to belong to the top rail of a fence six feet high, and apparently out of the reach of the horse. There was a scarred mark on the part from which the wood had come, and it is presumed that the fence was struck by lightning during the thunder-storm recently, and the piece of wood was driven into the horse’s nose. The heifer with her first calf, if expected to become a good dairy cow should be milked up to eight weeks of next calving time. This will develop •the lacteal glands as well as establish a milk habit, in fact an educational exercise for the cow, acquainting her animal instinct as to her duty. The argument in favour of large cows for dairy purposes is indeed absurd (says the National Dairyman). If a small Jersey will produce 300 pounds of butter a year it matters little what her weight is. Indeed, the increased weight means increased cost of food for maintaining the body, and when she has given her owner 300 pounds of butter yearly for ten or twelve years, her owner can afford to dispense with her carcase and give her a decent burial.

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