Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1917 — FEED CALVES NO OATS. [ARTICLE]

FEED CALVES NO OATS.

It is the purpose of this paper to help its readers in every way conceivable, and as our attention has been directed to the loss attendant on feeding oats to calves, we hasten to sound the word of warning. We think we have seen something on the subject in farm papers but when, demonstration of losses strike home in our own locality it sets us to thinking more seriously. Charley Fleming has discovered after losing some three or four head of his fine Fairfax calves that the cause thereof is oats, of which Charley is a liberal feeder. We understand that Fletcher Smith has also lost a cow and he attributes the cause to oats given as feed. All know that the cow is differently constituted than any other animal and the hulls of the oats do not allow the food to comer up for second mastication. The bats swell, resulting very often in the loss of the animal by death. Therefore if you wish to feed oats to your calves or even to cows, have them ground. The progressive farmer has learned too that a mixture of corn in the grinding and the two well seasoned with oil meal really makes the ideal calf feed, and one on which calves push right along to maturity perhaps better than with any other kind of feed. At any rate do not feed much whole oats to your calves. To do so may eventually result in a loss to you.