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get into the circle set out in pairs for a sham fight, 

 which is continued in the finest instinct for acting, 

 clearly for my entertainment ; and when the fight 

 is over, they all start a wild gallop in a wider 

 circle, of which I am the centre, ending up again 

 in a cluster around me. I have but to stand at the 

 gate and call them at any hour of the day or night, 

 and in less than ten minutes they are all in their 

 respective houses but I have never brought them 

 in without giving them something on arrival. 



I have never known a beast of any kind, however 

 vicious, that could not be made more friendly by 

 one simple trick scratch him where he cannot 

 scratch himself. 



Perhaps the most interesting fact I have been 

 able to verify from all this practice with calves is 

 that in feeding from the bucket, as compared with 

 suckling, a full third of the milk is lost. In other 

 words, two gallons sucked, have more feeding 

 value than three gallons from the bucket. In 

 order to make sure about this I have suckled as 

 many as four calves on the same cow at the same 

 time, and though the attempt was for information 

 rather than for profit, I found it as profitable as 

 it was instructive. The suckling took less time 

 than the milking and the feeding, and the calves 

 were better, on a total of a gallon per day less than 

 the bucket minimum. The difference does not 

 end there, for the suckled calves took the whole of 

 their solid food dry from the trough, saving the 

 time to prepare and feed it. In short, we can 

 raise three calves at the cost of two, and have 



