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cakes, wheii pulverized and boiled, make an equally good jellyV 

 Mr. Clift, ofNew-York, directs that after the calf has been fed 

 for a fortnight with sweet milk, give it skim milk mixed with 

 an equal or larger quantity of flaxseed broth, or jelly, and 

 let be given to it milk warm. Enough jelly may be boil- 

 ed at once for three or four days, but if the weather be warm 

 it will be spoiled by souring. With this drink, he says, calves 

 will thrive as well as if fed on sweet milk. 



The following communication obtained from the agricultur- 

 al society of Massachusetts, the prize for Mr. Rudd. He di- 

 rects to take the calves from the cows when three days old^ 

 and feed them with gruel composed of one third barley, and 

 two thirds oats, each ground fine and the mixture sifted. A 

 quart of this gruel is to be given to each calf, morning and 

 evening. The gruel is made by taking one quart of the flour 

 and twelve of water, and boiling them together for half ari' 

 hour, and is to be given when milk warm. In about ten days 

 after commencing the feeding, tie up and suspend a hrfndle of 

 sweet hay in the middle of the pen where the calves are kepty 

 which they will eat by degrees. A little of the flour put into a 

 trough for them to lick is also of service, t f'eed them till twa 

 months old, increasing the quantity as they grow larger. Hal^ 

 a bushel of the above mixture is sufficient for one Calf. 



The pasture into which calves are put, should be dry and 

 sweet. White clover is thought to be the best. Red clover, 

 6r trefoil, is also good. Mr. L. Hommendice, recommends 

 that tliere should be no water in the pasture, but sufficient of 

 shade. The effect of this, he says, is that the ceJves learn to 

 feed at night, when the dew is ofl, and lie by in the day time^ 

 and as grass whOe wet with dew is more nourishing, they 

 will thrive in this Way much better than when they hai?e free 

 access to water, which he says has a tendency to stunt thea* 

 and make them pot bellied. But it is thought to be the better 

 way to give them a little nourishing drink at certain times 

 when the dews fail, or at mid ^ay when the weather is very 

 tvarm. 



It is not sufficient for Calyes to ^^ kept well until they are S 

 year old, and have warm shelter in the winter. But it is toff 

 common for farmers, to turn their yOung growing cattle inta 

 pastures of stunted growth. Or iiito woods where there is not 

 sufficient for them to eat, by means of which their growth is 

 retarded ; and what is worse, they hereby often learn to be- 

 come habitually unruly, from the constant temptation they are 

 under of breaking into fields where there is plenty. 



It is believed that the superior keeping of the English cattle 



