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Rearine neat cattle is not worth while, in a common way of business; it may pay those who have large tracts of Jand, which they cannot apply to a more profitable purpose, as also the respect- able class of improvers. Much ink has been shed on the subject of the most advantageous method of WEANING CALvEs: and although it be true, that discussion ever tends to elucidate and inform, yet I must own, Iever thought the reason of the thing toJie ina mighty small compass.

If you aim at capital stock, you must go to the price of it; in other words, you must afford the calves nature’s full allowance of new milk, until they become able to Staze, in the same way as horses, and other animals, are treated. Your re- payment will consist in superior size and beauty, earlier tendency to breed and fatten, and more nu- tritious flesh. Granting the breeder expend twenty shillings, or five crowns extra, in new milk, and is afterwards repaid three or four pounds, in beef, T cannot discover, that either he, or the public, are sufferers by having acted right. The next method in point of profit,(I mean the proft of obtaining good stock), is, to make use of skimmed-milk, ameliorated, or rendered substantial with flour, or oatmeal: the last, or supposed plan of economy is, to depend upon linseed, hay-tea,&c. for which we have various receipts; the best, in my opinion, is that of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland.

It is a good and convenient plan, to bring up calves under a step-mother; an old cow, with a tolerable stock of milk, will suckle two calves, or more, either turned off with her, or at home, keep-

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