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put each little head in a pair of stanchions ; they will soon learn what it 

 is for, and in that way each one will get just what he wants, and no more. 

 Now, after they are through drinking, what shall we do? Turn them 

 loose? No, I would not turn them loose right away, because they will 

 suck each others ears ; that's a bad habit. Do you know how to cure 

 them of that habit? Why, by giving them something else to do. As 

 soon as they are through drinking, put some shelled corn in where they 

 had the milk. Why not grind it? No, it is better to shell it. By the 

 time that is eaten they have forgotten all about sucking ears. Then you 

 can turn them loose. How much shelled corn shall we give them ? Just 

 all you can get them to eat and digest. Why not give them just a little 

 shelled corn? I will tell you why — because the earlier you can get that 

 corn into them the more of it will stick to their ribs. When they are 

 babies what they eat sticks to their ribs. There is a reason for that. 

 All human bodies are made up of small particles called cells. But here 

 is something you have not thought of. Do you know that each little 

 cell is a living thing? Eaich almost independent of the other. Did you 

 know that? You think of me as being one man; but I am more than 

 Joseph Wing ; I am the republic of Joseph E. Wing, composed of thou- 

 sands of cells, all alive. Sometimes these cells co-operate with each 

 other and sometimes they do not, and then the devil's to pay. 



Now, in the case of babies, these little cells are very much alive. 

 All babies have good appetites. Did you ever see a baby not hungry? 

 They are sick when they are not hungry. What does it mean when a 

 baby is hungry? His little stomach has telegraphed to the brain that it 

 wants some food, that it is ready to take care of some food. 



Now, you must give these little calves all the corn they want to eat. 

 No, not quite all. Do not heap up the box running over, but give them 

 about three grains less than they want. When you give them all they 

 want, and a little more, and they come up to it and look at it and say, 

 "there is that stuff that tasted good while I was eating it, but it made 

 me sick." Sometimes I tell a little story in this connection as to how to 

 keep your sweethearts in love with you — how to keep them so they are al- 

 ways glad to have you come back the next time. It is just so easy. Just 

 leave your girl five minutes before she wants you to go; and when you 

 go back next time she will open the door wide aiid say, "Why,, it is John ; 

 come right in." But if you stayed too long the last time she will say, 

 "there's that fellow that made me so tired the last time he was here." 



So, give the little calf plenty of good, clean, warm milk; and plenty 

 of alfalfa and red clover hay. And make them good beds. Timothy 

 makes good bedding for these baby steers. Have their beds clean ; some- 

 times white scars form on them, caused from lying in a dirty place. Then 



