RKARINO CALVEa. 



439 



Without calling in the assistance of hay-tea, consequently, by 

 bringing uj) on milk for seven weeks, and giving forage as soon as 

 possible, it is obvious that we obtain results as fully as good as those 

 of M. Ferrault. 



I have said that it was during the period when calves are suck- 

 ing, or receiving a regular allowance of milk, that the increase of 

 weight was most rapid. As the animal approaches the term of its 

 complete development, the weight, in an equal interval of time, 

 increases at a progressively diminishing rate ; but from the data 

 which I have collected, but which are not very extensive, it appears 

 that the increase is very regular until the full growth is attained. 

 From this period the animal continues stationary if he merely 

 receives the ration of maintenance ; any variation observed is purely 

 accidental, and loss or gain one day is compensated by gain or loss 

 on another. The adult animal, which does not lay on fat, thus 

 act{uires a standard weio'ht, which is preserved for a term of years 

 unchanged, until the period of decrepitude and decay arrives. 



It is not unimportant to ascertain the progressive increase in 

 weight of cattle ; the balance is a means which the breeder and 

 feeder ought not to neglect ; it is a powerful check upon his ser- 

 vants, and a sure tell-tale in regard to the state of the stock at any 

 moment. A conscientious herdsman is a most precious person on a 

 farm ; but the more I study breeding and feeding, the more I am 

 satished that the most trustworthy agent of all is the balance. Fre- 

 quent weighings are necessary, in order to keep a regular account 

 of the state of the cow-houses. I here append such absolute obser- 

 vations as I have made on the increase of weight in horned cattle, 

 with an expression of regret that I have not been able to present my 

 reader with more numerous data.* 



Victoria . . 

 Ditto .. 



Susan 



Ditto 



Gallop ... 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Scliwartz . . 

 Sopliy .. 

 Mignonne. 

 Ditto ... . 

 Margot . 

 Ditto. ... 



Ditto 



James . . . . 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Weight at .\<e wlieni Weljjht ati Increase 

 birth weighed. jthis tinie.iper dlein 



lbs. 

 82 



80 



8S 



88 



Days. 



56 

 156 

 168 

 168 



82 

 164 



102 

 103 

 203 

 108 



ig-) 



290 

 119 



201 



lbs. 

 180 

 2?8 

 176 

 270 

 178 

 254 

 383 

 2;2 

 254 

 216 

 312 

 224 

 304 

 4S2 

 216 

 234 

 452 



lbs. 



1.93 



1.45 



1..55 



1.25 



1.21 



1.43 



1.59 



1.47 



1.76 



1.34 



1.56 



1.33 



1.56 



1.83 



1.25 



1.07 I 



1.32 I 



Under a year old. 



direct analysis that 100 of this dry matter contains 4.0 of azote : so that 100 of milk 

 contains 0.5 ) azote. This shows that 230 of milk are required to replace 100 of good 

 meadow hay, containing 1.50 azote. 



* As the weiiihts were merely r^^lative. I have neglected the fractions in turning 

 th^ French Kilogramme into avoird. pounds. I have, however, given the true incre- 

 ments of weights per diem.— Eno. Ed. 



