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in tafte, than the former.&quot;* In fome diftricfh, barley-meal, and linfced boiled 

 into a kind of jelly, and fuch-like materials, are fometimes given to calves in the 

 courfe of fattening ; but the above methods are greatly fuperior, though they may 

 be more expenfive. 



It is found by experience that the veal of calves when killed at fix weeks or two 

 months old is feldom of fo good a colour, or does the flem of fuch young calves 

 tafte fo well, as where the animal is fuffered to live a few weeks longer. &quot; To 

 attain both thefe ends of colour and flavour, it is fuppofed neceflary that the calves 

 ihould be maintained with plenty of milk, and regulated under fuch management 

 as before directed, till they arrive to the age of eight or ten weeks, according to the 

 feafon of the year, the more or lefs kindly Hate of the calf, the particular demand 

 of the markets, or other circumftances. In the fummer feafon it may be proper 

 to difpofe of them atan earlier period than in the winter ; not only on account of 

 their growing away with greater celerity in warm weather, but likewife becaufe of 

 the increafed demand for fmall veal, which is then mod faleable. During the lad 

 three or four weeks, blood mould frequently be drawn from the calf, which, it is 

 fuppofed, will be a likely means towards rendering the veal of a colour delicately 

 white ; a circumftance fo much attended to by the butcher, that he will commonly 

 depreciate fuch calves as from the appearance of their eyes are likely to die black f &amp;gt; 

 as they term it, though in other refpects not to be defpifed.&quot;f It is probable, 

 however, that the colour of the veal depends upon the breed, and is incapable of 

 being altered in this way. 



Mr. Marmall is decidedly of opinion &quot; that to tackle calves in general after they 

 arc ten weeks old is bad management j&quot; as from the whole of his accounts, &amp;lt;f thofc 

 of nine or ten have paid as much a week as thofe of twelve or thirteen ; and al 

 though a calf of fix weeks old may fuck nearly as much milk as a calf of twelve 

 weeks old, yet the firfl month or five weeks the quantity is considerably lefs, and 

 this advantage of their infancy is doubly as valuable to nine as it is to twelve 

 weeks. * The advantage of this practice is very confiderable when conducted 

 upon a large fcale. Near the metropolis the grofs product of a cow in this way 

 was, before the late advances in the price of butcher s meat, eftimated to rife on: 

 the average to feven or eight pounds in thofe of the moderate kind, and in very- 

 good, ones to nine pounds. The profit at prefent Hands much higher. 



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*; Stynopjis of Husbandry: t Ibid. 



