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of the former. Prepare some good, light, comfortable 

 barns for the stock, and keep them warm. 



Lumber is verr much cheaper in Vermont than fodder. 

 Hence the need of making our barns warmer to save feed. 

 How many there are who keep their stock in cold barns, 

 with no roots, no meal, no bedding; and when the cattle 

 get up in the morning, the juice will drip off them, from 

 their briskets to their rumps, and the remainder of them is 

 covered with vermin, two lice to one hair, and three nits to 

 one louse. If they survive the cold winter, they will not 

 get their old coats off till the middle of the summer, and 

 will take the remainder of the season to get to thriving. 

 Such animals will sell very low when put upon the market. 

 The owners of such will toast their shins by a fire made of 

 green wood, or else you will see them around the stores and 

 shops with their hands in their pockets, half way to their 

 ell)Ows, sucking an old, black pipe, complaining of hard 

 times to get money. 



But few people know how much profit there is in breed- 

 ing and raising good stock. For instance, let us take a 

 well-bred calf, when taken from the cow, at two days old, 

 and learn him to drink his own dam's milk for a few days, 

 and then put in a part skimmed milk, twelve hours old. 

 At ten days give it twelve hours skimmed milk ; at fifteen 

 days, twenty-four hours ; at two months, thirty-six ; at three 

 months, thick milk, with what dry shorts they will take. As 

 often as once in six weeks, dissolve a lump of saltpetre as 

 large as a robin's eg^ in the milk. With plenty of milk, 

 shorts, early cut hay, water and exercise, a calf can be 

 grown from two to three pounds a day for a year. With 



