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her into the yard. ITo person could be more kind than she was, in her way. 

 And if all Durliams are as good as she was to give milk, and as easily kept, 

 the author would be a Durham man every time. (See Fattening Cattle, how a 

 Yankee Farmer jMakes it Pay in Massachusetts; also see What Durhams are 

 for Milk, and for Beef, above.) 



Calves, Raising by Hand— Hay, Tea, etc., for Them.— With 

 good pasture for calves to run in, early cut and properly cured hay, of which 

 to make the hay tea; oil-cake, or home-ground oatmeal, and the milk of one 

 cow, three calves, after they are 10 days old, have been successfully kept, and 

 all the cream from the cow made into butter after the calves were 4 weeks old. 

 The plan was as follows: Directions — Boil good timothy hay, 1 lb. (better 

 cut in a cutter, if you have one) and boil in water, 6 qts., for an hour, keeping 

 covered, and make up for what may evaporate; then strain and let cool. While 

 cooling, stir 3 table-spoonfuls of oil-cake, made fine, or pretty finely ground 

 meal from oats, into 1 qt. of boiling water, slowly, as if making ' ' hasty pudding," 

 and when properly cooked stir this and the milk of the cow, with a very little 

 salt, into the hay tea, and give equally to the three calves. At the first feed 

 while warm, but after a week or two it does not matter if given cold, but with 

 each two weeks increase the oil-cake meal or the oatmeal, 1 table-spoonful tor 

 each calf. And it was claimed that at three months old calves raised in thia 

 way looked as well as those fed on milk entirely. They began to feed on gras3 

 at a month old, and increased their feeding on the grass until they depended 

 upon it almost entirely at 3 months. The trifle of salt must not be forgotten; 

 and if they begin to scour, the milk was boiled and 1 table-spoonful of flour 

 stirred in before it was added to the tea. But I should stir the flour into th» 

 milk while scalding. After the first week there was no trouble of this kind, 

 unless over-fed. 



Remarks. — T have condensed the above from some agricultural writer who 

 was not willing to put his name to his recommendations; but as I see it must be 

 good and was endorsed by the following, I have given it. I would say also, in 

 ease of much scouring, 15 to 20 drops of laudanum to each calf which may 

 scour may be added until relieved. For further instructions upon this point, if 

 any bad cases, see " Calves, Indigestion of," etc. 



II. Hay Tea, Also for Calves, Without Other Help. — The " Young Farmer" 

 who does the agricultural writing for the Boston Journal, under the above 

 head, gives his experience, which goes to show plainly that calves can be raised 

 upon hay tea, without milk or other help. Whether this one swallow (con- 

 trary to the general rule, that one swallow does not make a summer), shall be 

 considered a sufficient ground of reason for others to try it, I leave each one to 

 judge for himself. I should have no fears in trying it, if I had calves to raise; 

 . still I cannot see why a little thickening of the hay tea might not be made, with 

 a proper amount of the finely ground oatmeal, although the milk, it seems, caa 

 be left out without detriment. He says: 



" Being obliged to buy another cow a short time ago, to keep along my 

 supply of milk, t picked one out with a calf 5 weeks old at her side. The calf 

 was by a Dutch or Holstein bull out of a ^ths Jersey cow, and was a very 



