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promising heifer, in every way well formed. I could not bear to devote it to 

 tlie butcher: and I was in a bit of a quandry as I had not a bit of milk, new or 

 skimmed, to give it. At last a neighbor suggested hay tea. And hay tea it 

 has had. Not a quart of milk or a spoonful of meal since I got it, and it is 

 doing as well as any calf I ever raised; grows finelj', is fat enough, and seems 

 to like its hay tea, and to be just as well satisfied with a full meal of that as it 

 would be if it had taken its till right from the cow. I never tried hay tea 

 before, and never saw it made or fed out. I should have given a few roots or a 

 little meal, but for a desire to see how the tea went, without any other food, 

 that I might know whether the calf thrived on that, or on other food. Thus 

 far, I am'very well pleased with the result. It is not as much trouble to make 

 the hay tea as to make porridge, and the cost is nothing. I cut my hay, the 

 best and finest I have, about 4 inches long, and pour boiling water over it. Let 

 it stand until about tlie heat of milk from the cow, then take the hay out and 

 give it to the cow and the tea to the calf. One of my neighbors says I am 

 making the liny worth more for the cow, and so getting a profit, besides rais- 

 ing the calf. At any rate, she eats it greedily. The longer the hay steeps 

 before it gets cool, the more strength there is in it." 



Remarks. — It will be seen in No. 1 that 1 lb. of hay was used for 3 calves. 

 This "Young Farmer" does not give any weight, nor the amount of water, 

 but I should suppose that at least 2 qts. should be left after what is absorbed 

 by the hay, i. e., for one calf, and that if only the hay tea was to be given, I 

 should use at least J^ or % of a pound of hay for 1 calf. Still, the author 

 must advise, or think, it better to use a couple of table-spoonfuls of the oat- 

 meal, made into mush, or hasty pudding, as No. 1 has it, than to depend on 

 the hay tea alone. I think it will prove the most healthful in this way for the 

 calf. That the hay tea is a grand invention, in raising calves, I have not a 

 doubt. 



Feeding Calves in "Winter. — A person signing himself "Experience," 

 of Muir, Mich., in answer to the inquiry of " Breeder," in the Detroit Tribune, 

 that some of its many readers would tell him the best feed for calves in winter, 

 says: "If he will give his calves wheat bran for their morning meal, and 

 turnips for their evening meal, with what good clover hay they want, and give 

 them a warm, clean stable, never let them out doors in the cold; water them in 

 their stalls once a day — in the evening — he will have no trouble to raise good 

 calves and keep them fat and growing. But under no circumstances should 

 they be turned out of doors imtil spring, and if they are kept in the stalls on 

 bran and turnips until feed is good, they are better for it. The bran should be 

 fed dry with a small quantity of salt twice a week. 



Remarks. — The author cannot see why good, warm, dry sheds, with plenty 

 of bedding or littering daily, will not do very nicely when stable room is not 

 plenty. 



Indigestion of Calves, Remedies for.— Calves that are fed on milk 

 principally, and carelessly managed, are liable to indigestion; becoming 

 "pot-bellied," dull and thriftless, appetite varied, sometimes voracious, then 

 not caring for their food at all; bowels irregular, or else regularly loose, and 

 their passages offensive, which, if not soon remedied, the diarrhoea becomes 

 chronic and troublesome to cure. The trouble is believed to arise from an 

 accumulation of curdled milk in the fourth stomach (which is the one used 



