Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1914 — Cost of Calves. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Calves.

Do you know how much it costs you to raise your calves’? It would prove interesting and profitable for you to keep a record. Prof. Shaw of Michigan, did so, and found that the Holstein calf used in the experiment the first year of its life 381 pounds of whole milk, 2,668 pounds of skim milk, 1,262 pounds of silage, 219 pounds of beet pulp, 1,264 pounds of hay, 1,247 pounds of grain, 147 pounds of roots, 14 pounds of alfalfa meal and 50 pounds of green corn. The grain ration consisted of three parts each of corn and oats and one part of bran and oil meal. At the end of the year the calf weighed 800 pounds at a cost of $28.55 for feed.