495 Cultivation of Graft Land. Suckling of Cakes* 



perpetual. Several extraordinary dorneftics muft be employed where the dairy 

 is large ; and no fmall allowance of fuel is necefiary, that boiling water may be 

 ftill at hand, to fcald the pails and other uteri fi Is employed on the occafion. In 

 fuckling, alfo, the charges are much heavier than when the milk is fold out of the 

 pail ; for fucklers are continually wanted, which are often bought in at very ad 

 vanced prices, and fometimes thefe are not to be procured at any rate juft when 

 they may be required; fo that either the calves which are ready for the butcher, 

 muft be kept a week or two longer than would otherwife have been neceffary, (in 

 which the farmer will rarely find his account), or, if thefe calves are fold off, 

 there will be an overplus of milk, of which it will be found difficult to make any 

 profit, fince it will not produce a quantity of cream fufficient to make any advan 

 tage by the butter. Now the milkman has none of thefe inconveniences to ftrug- 

 gle with; and, whilft the cows continue to yield an ample produce, and this goes 

 oif at a quick fale, the whole of the buiinefs is performed with little trouble ; and, 

 \vhat is an additional advantage, each cow yields a profit before her milk is fent 

 to market by the fale of the young calf; whereas the fuckling-farmer, as was 

 mentioned before, is often under the necelTity of purchafing fome young calves to 

 keep up his flock, a balance greatly in favour of thofe perfons who make fale of 

 their milk.&quot;* 



Suckling of Calves. This is another method in which the produce of the cow 

 may in particular lituations be turned to great advantage. It is only, however, 

 in the neighbourhood, or, within a certain diftance, as twenty or thirty miles, of 

 large towns, where the demand for veal is conftantly great, that the practice can 

 be attempted with fuccefs. In other circumftances it is by no means applicable, 

 or to be depended upon by the farmer. Where the paftures are rich, and fituated 

 near the fuckling-houfes, it may be more advantageous than in other cafes. f In 

 this buflnefs, as well as that of cow-keeping, the animals fhould be well fuited to 

 the nature and fupply of food that can be conftantly commanded. And as in the 

 fattening of calves much depends both on the quality and quantity of the milk, 

 thofe cows fhould be chofen foi the purpofe which, while they afford fuch milk 

 as pofTeffes rich and highly nutritious properties, may fupply it in a tolerably large 

 proportion. On thefe accounts the large HoldernelTe breed of cows may often 

 be lefs proper for the calf- fuckling farmer than thofe of other breeds that do not 



* Synopfis of Husbandry. i Ibid. 



