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i ing them we condition,.until they are old enough to shift: they ought to suck the first of their{ "Ot appl mother’s milk, for two or three days, although 4 S 2 b) Oo EF iss“many are weaned, without ever being suffered to en shed sae at all. Calves, whether rearing or fattening, i tethod of sec also, always suck before milking, the cow a rue, that being milked afterwards, as the first and thinnest f on yet of the. milk is sufficiently rich. Old milk will, he thing perhaps, scour a very young calf; but the effect| will go off without any ill consequences.} Oto the The last calves I reared, J made use of skimmed P Tord the milk, and second flour, sometimesoatmeal. Began;) k, until the first week in March. They were of the large,” tes way as short-horned breed, and consumed daily, at three' tr 1 meals, three quarters of a pound of flour each, auty, boiled up in skimmed milk; it required the milk of Tis more than two ordinary cows, tosupply two calves. venty In a few weeks, they began to eat fine rowen, to : an which they were at first tempted, by its being made 1 beef, up intotwists orbands. Flour omitted 14th May: ic, are milk, in part, June 1: totally, June 8, when they faihod were turned into good grass.‘They were kept in aining part of a spare barn, at first, afterwards running out amik, and in; but warmth and good bedding appeared ur oF of the first consequence to them, being“affected by sna cold and change of weather. One, particularly, fat scoured a great deal, and always seemed affected

by crudities in the stomach: the remedy, occa-

ion, 13: 3 see 1 5 “ sionally administered, and always successful for

nd the time, was two small tea-spoons full of rhu-

mn Ht barb, in~ pint of gruel,« ey tea. The ani-

with mal could not, snineee tne existed, without

ales: this aid, during its milk course, and died after-

ghee: wards, ing