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Such a difcoveiy being a defideratum in hus- 

 bandry, and valuable as a likely means of caufing 

 a greater tnumber of thofe profitable animals to be 

 annually reared; I have lately, I hope, been fur- 

 nifhed with that information, which will bid fair 

 fully to attain the end propofed, as much from 

 the very great facility of the pra&ice, as from the 

 cheapnefs of it. 



Riding out a few weeks ago, I accidentally 

 parTed through a turnip-field, in the occupation 

 of a tenant of mine, in Wreningham, (a parifh 

 adjoining to this) where feeing feveral fine healthy 

 weanling calves of this year, I enquired of him, 

 who then happened to be there, how long they 

 had been turned into the field, and whether they 

 were left abroad during the night ; when he gave 

 me the following account : — 



" That his method was, and had been for many 

 years, to wean his calves from fucking the cows 

 at about feven or eight days old ; that he then 

 gave them fkimmed milk for about ten or twelve 

 days more, with a few turnips cut into three or 

 four pieces each, which they foon learnt to nibble 

 and cat; after which he turned them into the 

 turnip-field without any farther care or trouble 

 than carrying them a fmall bunch of frefh barley 



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