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SUCKLING. 505

profitable application of milk, as it reasonably ought, considering the labour, is to make it into butter.,

SuckLING, as it is sometimes practised, in the common way, I am persuaded can render little or no profit at all. Ihave seen a calf at ten or twelve weeks old, consuming the milk of two or three or- dinary cows; it has yet been kept on, eight or ten weeks, and then sold at an inferior price.‘Those which I have fattened, I always found returned most profit, when they could be got rid of at seven or eight weeks old, and before thty began to de- mand such vast quantities of milk.

The most profitable plan of suckling, I‘should suppose, is to keep great milkers of the short-horned breed, and to replace their own calves with a smaller kind. I have elsewhere recommended, to suckle calves three times a day; but was not aware, at that time, of such a. method being any where practised. It gives me pleasure to be informed, that in Scotland, where the farmers reason, and are open to conviction and improvements, such has long been the custom. Acid crudities and indi- gestion, the common maladies of fattening calves, no doubt originate in the great load, laid at once, upon their stomachs; much of the mischief would be obviated, by dividing their milk into three meals. There is another cause of malady; the confinement, which is supposed so indispensably necessary to their thriving: I am an infidel on that head; I have been deceived by a few trials, if I cannot make equally fat, much better and more wholesome veal, with air and a little liberty.

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