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Issue 13 Crossword puzzle

MYSTERY WORD
Successfully complete the crossword puzzle to discover the answer to the
six-letter mystery word. Send your mystery word answer to
walt@progressivedairy.com by September 15 to be eligible for a $25 prize.
Winners will be drawn from correct answers. The winner will be announced
in the October 12 issue of Progressive Dairyman.

ACROSS
1. Milk produced in late pregnancy
5. Loses the need to suckle
9. Resting place
10. You may need to treat this part of a newborn
calf with iodine
13. Hawaiian dances
16. Pair
18. Large quantity
19. Nurse at the udder
20. Debtor’s note
21. The states
22. Rest and Relaxation, for short
23. Cow sound
25. Tropical lizard
28. Farmland measures
30. Act of being born
32. Sire is one
34. Floor model
35. Sleep space
36. Fairylike being
38. 24 hours
39. Ball of material
41. Nature’s way of recycling
44. Hindu holy man
48. Beef alternative
50. A Manning
51. Hot milk drink formation
54. First division of the stomach
55. Eco-friendly color?
56. Long way off
57. 2nd in a line of kings
58. Harvest
59.___ culture products, these are commonly
added to calf starters to improve performance
61. Calf cost
62. Message in a bottle
63. Pig place

DOWN
1. Eat or drink up
2. It’s all you need?
3. Sun to some
4. ___ replacer, this is used as a nutrient source
for calves
5. Word to the ___
6. Inside, prefix
7. ___bodies, calves have the ability to absorb
these for 24 hours after birth
8. This calf disease causes more financial loss to
cow-calf producers than any other disease-related problem they encounter
11. Too
12. Lady sheep
14. ___ Davis, California university with a good
agriculture program
15. ___-natural, organic
17. Donned
24. Follow the rules
25. Calf stages of development
26. “__ tu, Brute”
27. Lyrical poem
28. Promotional feature
29. Regret bitterly
31. Instant messenger, for short
33. Change
34. Prosecutor, abbr.
36. Plants for feeding livestock
37. Nutrient and ___ transfer from cow to calf
pre- and postcalving
38. Enterotoxemia, for example
40. Capital initials
42. Jedi first name
43. Jerry’s opponent?
45. Aluminum symbol
46. Find dirt? (2 words)
47. Computer operators
49. Small, mongrel dog
52. Leg joint
53. Little snoozes
54. Sunbeams
60. Good grades

 

AND THE WINNER IS . . .
Congratulations to Elaine Griswold of Ixonia, Wisconsin, who correctly identified the mystery word from the crossword in Issue 13 as estrus and won a $25 prize package of award-winning cheese from Kenny’s Country Cheese in Austin, Kentucky.

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of Issue 15
crossword puzzle here.

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