cows. 



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this operation is performed, and while she is getting 

 well, you should suffer the calf to suck her occasion- 

 ally ; but never suffer it to hunch. Your milkmaid 

 should, in milking her, strip every drop that she can 

 get, as a neglect of this practice has often caused 

 cows to go dry. The milkmaid should be very gen- 

 tle. The milk may be taken from the cow and giv- 

 en to the calf, which should by all means be weaned 

 so soon as the cow gets well. 



After the calf is weaned, the cow should be fed 

 very high on slops, grass, and hay, which course 

 will insure the cow to give abundance of milk for ten 

 or fifteen years, and generally as much as cows give 

 four weeks after having a calf. 



One thing I wish particularly to mention. All 

 cows should be housed as carefully as horses are. 

 They should have their stables, and their beds made 

 in wet and cold weather. A cow kept in a good, 

 warm and dry stable, will become fat more easily, 

 and her milk will be as rich as yearling's. Another 

 thing to be observed is, your cow should be curried 

 and rubbed down as regularly and as often as your 

 horse ; morning and night will be sufficient. This 

 course will render your cow gentle and docile as a 

 dog, and two cows thus used will furnish a large fam- 

 ily in the country with milk and butter. If your cows 

 are good, they will give from two to three gallons at 

 a milking ; which will be ten or twelve gallons per 

 day. The more pains you take with your stock, the 

 finer and larger they will be. 



