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time to time as the milk is ready for them, and 

 thereby varying so much more in their ages. 

 More than once I have with advantage put back 

 some of the first lot to finish out over again among 

 the second, and I have sometimes been able to 

 promote the strongest of the younger to the 

 company and treatment of their elders ; such is 

 the variation in the thriving power of calves which 

 must be watched and studied to make the most 

 of them. Looking back, I see one omission : the 

 new born calf, starting on two pints the first day, 

 ought to have three pints the second day, gradually 

 increased farther to three quarts on the seventh 

 day, and again to four quarts at cudding, which is 

 quite enough until the ruminant stage is well 

 established. Questions of health will be discussed 

 in the next chapter, but there will not be much 

 need of it for the man who attends to this, and 

 an ounce of active brain is better than a ton of 

 physic. 



So much for milk, and now we had better turn 

 back briefly on the solids : 



i Ib. per calf per day at cudding. 

 j ,, a week later. 



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That is simple, an increase of per week from 

 cudding for the next four weeks, when the calf 

 ought to be out of his sixth week. Of course, the 

 increases ought to be made gradually from any 



