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DISEASES 

 TO WHICH CALVES ARE SUBJECT. 



It is an observation founded on experience, that calves 

 born in the open air, suffer much less from weakness 

 or illness, than those that are kept, from the moment 

 of their birth, in closely confined barns, or sheds. 

 Those brought up by hand, are also much more deli- 

 cate than those which are allowed to suck and follow 

 their mothers. Calves and lambs require exercise and 

 fresh air ; and where they are not restrained, nature 

 directs them to take a ^re^t deal ; and it is surprising 

 to see how long a calf will run about, and with what 

 vigour it plays and frisks, if left at liberty. Free, un- 

 constrained, and plenteous exercise, out of doors, evi- 

 dently makes them thrive, and, indeed, seems essential 

 to their very existence. 



Where the cow is much weakened in calving, or 

 long in giving milk, or if the weather be cold, it will 

 be necessary to warm a little before the fire in a pan 

 until it is about blood warm, and then to give it in this 

 state to the calf, a little at a time ; about a pint and a 

 half, four times in every twenty-four hours. If cold 

 milk be given to a calf, it occasions a trembling; and 

 the cords, or some other malady, inevitably succeed. 



Calves are subject to several disorders during the 

 time of sucking, when weaning, or while they are fat- 

 tening for the butcher. These disorders, or rather 

 symptoms, have obtained different names, as cords, 

 diarrhcEa, costiveness, &c., but they are really, evi- 

 dence of one disorder only — indigestion. 

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