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by 10 pints whole milk and 5 pints of the liquid just 

 mentioned. In the fifth week the whole milk 

 should be reduced to 5 pints, and to it should be 

 added 10 pints skim milk and 5 pints of the sacchari- 

 fied solution. From the sixth week on the ration 

 per head and per day would consist of 16 pints of 

 skim milk and 5 pints of solution. According to 

 observations made on twenty-two calves aged 4-36 

 days for a period of half a year, the daily increase 

 of weight per head was on an average 1-05 kg. 

 when potato starch and extract of malt were given. 

 The favourable effect of the saccharified solution 

 depends partly upon the change of the starch into 

 dextrine and maltose, whereby digestion and re- 

 sorption is facilitated, and partly upon the muci- 

 laginous nature of the dextrine which acts like 

 linseed or linseed cake upon the digestive organs. 



Newly born calves have only a simple stomach, 

 and so in early life they have to be provided with 

 easily digestible nourishment. The formation of 

 the fore stomachs only begins later, and the process 

 is considerably helped if, as early as a week after 

 birth, a small but gradually increasing quantity of 

 tender, palatable meadow hay is given. 



If the time for weaning has come the milk should 

 be withdrawn a pint at a time and some other 

 warm drink substituted; at the same time, more 

 meadow hay should be given up to 3 or 4 Ibs. Along 

 with this, about the end of the third month, finely 



