Mr. VHommedieu on raifing Calves. n:;; 



county) imputed to their not having water ; and obferved that 

 he never had calves do fo well before — and his obfervations 

 on the fubje6t very well accounted for the fa£ls. He fuppofed 

 that calves accuftonied to get their fupport from milk (being 

 a liquid) when they are feparated from the cows, and put in 

 a pafture where there is water,, after becoming very hungry 

 and dry, betake themfelves to water, which being a liquid, 

 and more fimilar to what they have been accuftomed to, than 

 grafs, they drink and drink again, till they appear round and 

 full ; but this not being fufficient to fupport nature, after 

 falling away confiderably, -they eat a Httle grafs, and that 

 principally in the day-time, which does not alleviate their 

 third, fo as to prevent their drinking too much. But on 

 the other hand, when there is no water in the pafture, the 

 calves, preifed by hunger, are obliged to feed on grafs which 

 contains fome moifture, and foon learn to allay their thirft 

 by eating while the dew js on, and for the fake of the moifture 

 or dew on the grafs, eat much more than they would do, if 

 they could go to water, and foon get accuftomed to feed 

 chiefly in the night and in the morning, before the dews are 

 exhaled. By this practice you will fee no pot-bellied calves, 

 which is occafioned by drinking' too much, and eating too 

 little : this too brings on poverty in flefti, which produces 

 . lice, and the lice prevent the thriving and growth of the 

 calves till their coat of hair is ftied the enfuing fpring, 

 one or tv/o other facts, which I flmll relate. From this and 



