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RAISING CALVES: 

 BT EZRA VHOMMEDIEU, Es^ 



IN iaifing horned cattle, it Is of great Importance that the 

 calves be weaned and kept through the. fummer in the bed 

 manner : If this is not attended to, and they become poor 

 or pot-bellied, it is with difficulty they can be put in a thriving 

 condition, and in general will never recover fo as to equal 

 thofe which have not been checked in their early growth. 

 Calves taken from the cows are generally kept in paftures 

 where there is plenty of water, and a paflure where there is 

 water, is preferred to one much better where Aere is no wa- 

 ter y but by> obfervation, I am convinced that this pradice is 

 wrong, and that calves taken from the cows wean much better 

 in a paflure without water, than in a paflure of equal goodnefs 

 with water. Lafl year I faw in a paflure without water, more 

 than twenty calves, in which they had been kept without 

 drinking from the time of their being taken from the cows till 

 fometime in the fall : I frequently faw them and obferved them , 

 more attentively, on account qf the particular manner in which 

 they were kept y they were ail thrifty and remarkably gaunt 

 orfmall bellied, which, the owner (a gentleman cf Suffolk:. 



