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Article XXXIX. 



jln Account of a Mode of Weaning and Rearing 

 Calves^ by a Norfolk Farmer. 



[Communicated by the Norfolk Agriculture Society.] 



MR. Whitby, of Wallington, did, between the 

 firft of December 1776, and the^firft of 

 April 1777, wean, and rear on his farm, ten cow- 

 calves, and thirteen bull-calves, by the method 

 following: — At three days old, they were taken 

 from the cows, put into a flied, and fed with flet 

 (ikimrp'd) milk for one month, allowing three 

 quarts to each calf rporning and evening. When a 

 month old, they were fed with the like quantity 

 of milk and water, morning and evening, with hay 

 to feed on in the day-time, and at noon they ^ycre 

 fed wi(h oats and l:jran equally mixed, allowing 

 half a peck to one dozen calves. At two months 

 oid> they were fed only in the morning with milk 

 and water, they had hay to feed on in the day-tim^, 

 and at evening, inftead of noon, had the fame 

 quantity of bran and oats, with water to drink. 

 They were fed in this manner until the middle of 

 April, when they were turned out to grafs all day, 

 ftnd taken into a ihed at evening, and fed with 

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