Cultivation of Grafs Land Weaning y Cakes .* What ncccjjiiry in. 507 



may be, fliould be left off in as gradual a inarncr as potfibl.Cj as the calves become 

 incapable of fupporting themfclves on hay or graft. The following advice of a 

 practical writer* is judicious : After the calves have been weaned, cfpecially the 

 later ones, they fhould be turned abroad, in the day-time, into a (hull clofe or or* 

 chard near the farm yard, where there is a good bite of grafs &amp;gt; an J, as there is ge 

 nerally more than one calf weaned in a feafbn, they will each be company for the 

 other, and become in a fhort time reconciled to their fituation. This pafture 

 Ihould be atfomediftance from that whereon the dams are turned, and have nei 

 ther ponds nor ditches; or any annoyance which may endanger the lives of thefe 

 youthful animals ; and in order to habituate them (till more to their pafture, the 

 food mould be carried clean to them at each of their feeding-hours. For the firft 

 month or fix weeks, they ought every night to be brought out of the meadow, and 

 lodged in the pens ; but, after this time they may be left in the pafture as well 

 in the night feafon as in the day : and their food may now be lowered by degree.?, 

 till it beat length reduced to fimple water only for, when the calves get to the 

 age of twelve or fourteen weeks, they will no longer require the aid of this fufte- 

 nance, but be able to fatisfy their appetites by grafs. Care, however, muft be 

 taken throughout the fummer that they be frequently fhifted from one pafture to 

 another, in order that they may be kept up in good flefh, and enabled to gro v .v 

 away with the utmoft celerity. At Michaelmas, orfoon after, they mould be taken 

 into the yard ; and if they were allowed the indulgence of a (null clofe to them- 

 felves it would be (till better. And here their tafte mud be gratified with the 

 bed and fweeteft hay that can be procured, with an outlet on a dry pafture, where 

 in fine open weather they may befuffered to enjoy themfelves : it would redound 

 greatly to their advantage, if, on the approach of winter, a (bed was to be erected 

 for them to repofe in during the night, and for flielter in tempeftuous days. S,&amp;gt; 

 eflential are warmth and good living to young animals of every denomination, that 

 the care which has been taken of them in their early life will be manifeft in every 

 ftageof their future growth. Nor is there any dock which will pay better for 

 this cautious management in their youth than thofe of the cow kind ; for if thefc 

 are (tinted in their feed, or carelefsly attended whilft in their growing (rate, they 

 will never arrive to that (ize which they would otherwife have done, and confe- 

 quently the lofs will be perpetually felt by the farmer who attempts to raife milcli 

 cows of his own breed without giving them a due attendance in the firft ycar.f 



Mr, Baunifter. + Synopds of Hufl&amp;gt;adry. 



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