104 BEEF CATTLE. 



ON RAISING BEEF CATTLE. 



Calves which you wish to grow large, should be 

 taken when about two weeks old. Their feed should 

 be as follows : Take a small quantity of Indian mush 

 made thin, and put into it an egg, which has been 

 well beaten in a bowl. The egg should be stirred in 

 the mush while boiling, and afterward some milk must 

 be stirred in the same. This should be given to the calf 

 with a spoon, until it learns to drink the mush and 

 milk. It should be regularly fed three or fcur times a 

 day, and keep it in or under a dry shed, never suffer- 

 ing it to run out until it is a year old, when it should 

 be transferred to a small clover lot, and should be 

 curried and carded two or three times a day. 



By pursuing this course, you can have your beeves 

 at eight years old, to weigh from five to six thousand 

 pounds ; which will bring you from two to three 

 thousand dollars for each beef. 



To prove what I am going to relate, concerning a 

 calf of mine treated in this manner, I shall refer you 

 to the inhabitants of Talbot County, Eastern Shore of 

 Maryland, at the last cattle show in Maryland in 1826. 

 I took a small runt of a calf, and commenced feeding 

 it in the above manner. At the time the cattle show 

 came on, my calf was eighteen months old, and 

 weighed twelve hundred pounds alive ; and if I had 

 continued on until it had been eight years old, what 



