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following mode of fe3ding calves has been recommended. For the 

 first few meals, new milk ; the next few meals, new milk and skim- 

 med milk mixed together ; then skim milk alone, or porridge made 

 of milk, water, meal, and sometimes oil-cake or linseed meal. In 

 the season of making cheese, the whey may he given to them. 



\Yheri fed from the pail, calves require about two gallons daily ; 

 but care must be taken not to give it to them too cold, as it will cause 

 them to purge. When this is the case, one or two spoonsful of rennet 

 in the milk will be a good remedy. Great regularity should be ob- 

 served in feeding calves, and they should always have sweet grass, or 

 good clover hay on which to nibble at intervals of their more regular 

 food. They are easily taught to eat carrots or turnips, small ears of 

 corn, and indeed almost every thing that is eaten by cattle. And, if 

 the farmer would see them thrive well, he must constantly look to 

 their wants. If in the first year they become stinted, no subsequent 

 effort will advance them to the size they might have attained, provid- 

 ed in this period they had been amply fed. 



CAMEL. The camel is one of the larger quadrupeds, being six 

 or seven feet from the ground to the highest part of the back, and it 

 carries the head when erect about nine feet above the plane of its 

 position. The carcass weighs three or four hundred pounds ; but the 

 size and weight are far from alike in all. The natural abode of this 

 animal is in the warmer climates, and places abounding with sand, 

 where food is scanty, and exposure to long protracted privations are 

 unavoidable ; insomuch that, from the configuration of its foot, diffi- 

 culty is experienced in treading another soil, and in the richer or 

 more fertile countries where attempts have been made for its natural- 

 ization, it grows feeble, languishes, and dies. 



The motion of the camel is unlike that of most other animals ; 

 both the feet on the same side are successively raised, and not alter- 

 nately like those of the horse. Its pace is naturally slow, and when 

 accelerated, the rider experiences the most severe jolting, which it 

 requires continued practice to endure. Properties which are denied 

 to the greater part of quadrupeds are possessed by the camel, and in 

 their fullest extent converted to the use of mankind. It is docile, 

 patient of labor, and capable of abstinence in a wonderful degree ; it 

 can endure scorching heats with impunity; it feeds on thistles, on the 

 stunted shrubs and withered herbage of the desert, and can pass 

 successive days in total want of water ; thus seeming as if purposely 

 devised by nature for the most cheerless and inhospitable regions. 



But these properties are improved to a great extent, by the mode 

 in which the camel is reared. At the earliest period, the legs are 

 folded under the body, in which position it is constrained to remain. 

 Its back is covered with a carpet, weighed down by a quantity of 

 stones gradually augmented : it receives a scanty portion of food ; it 

 is rarely supplied with water ; and, in this manner, is regularly 



