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rice-jelly, mixed with the skimmed milk, in this case,.

His Grace the Duke of Northumberland’s re- ceipt:“ Take one gallon of skimmed milk, and in about a pint of it add half an ounce zs common treacle, stirring it until it is well mixed; then tak

sone ounce of linseed oil-cake, finely eee

and with the hand let it fall gradually, in very small quantities, into the milk, stirring it, in the mean time, with a spoon or ladle, until it be thoroughly incorpor rated; then let the mixture be put into the other part i: the milk, and the whole be made nearly as warm as new milk, when it 1s first taken t for t use,

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from the cow; and in that state it is-f The quantity of oil-cake powder, may, to time, be increased, as occasion may req and as the calf becomes inured to the flavour of it.

Mr. Crook’s’ method is to make a jelly of one

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quart of lin: eee boiled ten minutes in six quarts of

water, ae Cc oP elly 1 is afterwards mixed with a small quantity of t] best hay-tea: on this, he rears many calves, Se milk; and about ten years since, obtained the present of a piece of plate, from the Bath Society, in consequence.

Many calves are annually lost by artificial rearing, and more brought up with poor and weak stamina. The mischief arises, according to my observation, from crudities and indigestion, and want of care and comfort, and not seldom, of the proper natu- ral food. In weak cases, give pollard, wet or dry, or bran and ground oats with fine hay. I have turned them out with their dams, the calves having

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