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The new farmer's calendar : or monthly remembrancer for all kinds of country business ; comprehending all the material improvements in the new husbandry with the management of live stock, inscribed to the farmers of Great Britain / by a farmer and breeder [i. e. J. Lawrence]
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wards, rotten,.at sre which would not ma the best milk and attendance, but heaved, losing flesh daily, and, in fact, laid dying in the pen, ut up among the weaners; upon the

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calf was spoiled large beast, being haltf-starved, when pregnant o< Oo 3

{ by the mother of her, a good

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upon a common.

The proper degree of warmth for the skimmed

milk, on which talves are weaned, is plainly enough

indicated by nature. After a while, and when the

weaners have been picki ig about abroad, we are ive t

indifferent on the point, and g heir mess warm,

or cold, as it m y hap pen. ut what is common sense to es ae loucestershire farmer, who gives the milk, snicker to his calves, even to

tine degree of mjuring trelt lips, in ee to pre- vent scouring!!! Since heat is supposed to con-

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vey an astringent quality to the milk, soligdee Thc sq]lyee-annNnat Lave SVE sacl p ¢ concludes his calves cannot have too mucn OF a

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good thing, unapprized that 1mmoderate heat, ne- cessarily produees laxity and debuity TYTN)

A ad 1 and intestines, whence morbid costiveness,

macl S = ee ee eee> alternating, probably, with sc aa But some

animals are so naturally robust, or their managers so fortunate, that they will thrive and do welll despite of the most painiul efiorts. This is ee

instance of practice. ne.

I have a good opinion of rice, for the feed- ing and nourish ling, not fattening of animals, and have often wished it duty-free. I intend to try rices