RAISING CALVES AT AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 186, 31 August 1871, Page 7

RAISING CALVES AT AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

The London « Milk Journal " tella how stock is raised at Hohenheim. The rules laid down at this groat acricultur.il college are that it is best to rear calves entirely by hand so as to have less trouble with both thj cow and off spring, and the quality and amount of food must bj regulate.] as follows :—: — Milk. Oatmeal. Fine Hay. Ist week, daily, L2lb Oib 01b 2nd „ „ 16 0 0 3rd „ „ 20 0 0 4th „ „ 22 0 0 sth to 7th „ 22 h h Bth „ „ 21 I I 9th „ „ 20 1 1 10th „ „ 16 2 3 11th „ „ 12 2 G ' 12th „ „ 8 2 10 13th „ „ 4 3 10 In the ninili week the milk is first mixed with water and a little line otitrneal. The meal is afterwards mixed with dry fodder. After three months the milk is withheld, anil then the young animal receives cUiih', till two and a half years old, from twenty to twenty two pounds of hay or its equivalent. But the calves never after receive, even in summer, any dry fool ! till they are nine months old. The average feeding is so divided that the younger portion receive less, the older more, till two and a half year?, when they begin to receive the regular rations of the older cattle, including the regular grain fodder, as indicated above. The growth with this treatment is so remarkable, that it is only «, little surpassed by fc'.ie rapidly maturing short horns. Heifers. B ills. Weight of calves at 3 months 2331 b 3531 b ,7 „ 9 „ 351 472 „ „ lyear 040 72G „ „ 2 „ 1184 1300 Daily increase of calves - 1.5 1.8 „ „ in second year 1.4 1.5 The college whose management of young stock is given above by the " Milk -Journal " was established in 1818, by King William, on the, Koville estate in Hohenheim, Wurfcemberg.