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weeks longer. It is the cuflom in Suffolk to let the calves fuck fix or fevcn weeks, 

 and then to give them coarfe pollard and oats with fkimmed milk and water, 

 Jetting them have fome nice green hay conftantly till they are turned to grafs. 

 Carrots might likewife be ufed with advantage as a fubftitute for the oats. In 

 Norfolk, with early calves, the method is for them to fuck twice a day fora fort 

 night, then to have the pail twice a day for an equal length of time, afterwards 

 once a day for a month or (ix weeks longer; cut hay, turnips, and fometimes other 

 materials being put in the racks and mangers. The latter is an excellent food where, 

 they take well to it, as they require but little water with them. With this combi 

 nation of milk and turnips the calves are generally found to thrive extremely well. 



In Scotland they have two methods for rearing calves ; the firft is by giving. 

 them a pailful, containing about a gallon, of milk warm from the teat of the co\v r 

 morning and evening, for eight or ten weeks ; and the fecond is to allow the calf 

 to fuck its dam. 



Where calves are reared with ikim-milk, it mould be boiled, and fuffered to&amp;gt; 

 {land until it cools to the temperature of that given by the cow, or a trifling degree 

 more warm, and in that flate to be given to the calf. Milk is frequently given 

 to calves when made warm only j but that method will not fucceed fo well as 

 boiling it. If the milk be given over cold, it is apt to caufe the calf to Jkit GJ? 

 purge. When this is the cafe a little rennet may be put in the milk. If, on the 

 contrary, the calf is bound, bacon or mutton broth is a very good and fafe thing 

 to put into the milk. From a gallon to a gallon and a half of rnilk per day will 

 keep a calf well till it be thirteen weeks old. It may then be fupported with* 

 out milk, by giving it hay and a little wheat-bran once a day, with about a pint 

 of oats. The oats will be found of great fervice as foon as the calf is capable 

 of eating them. The bran and oats mould be given about mid-day : the milk ir* 

 equal portions, at eight o clock in the morning and four in the afternoon. But 

 whatever hours are chofen to be fet apart for feeding the calf, it is bed to adhere 

 to the particular times, as regularity is of more confequence than is commonly fup- 

 pofed. If calves go but an hour or two beyond their ufual time of feeding, they 

 find themfelves uneafy, and pine for food. It is always to be underftood, that calves 

 reared in this manner are to be enticed to eat hay as early as poflible ; and the bed 

 way of doing this is to give them the fweeteft hay that can be procured, and but a 

 little at a time. Turnips or potatoes are very good food as foon as they can eat 

 them ; and they are beft cut fmall and mixed with, the hay, oats,, bran, and other 

 fimilar fbbftances,. 



