CHAP. XIX.] FARMING FOR LADIES. 381 



stinted, it will assuredly grow up gaunt and 

 ill-thriven." 



" When not let to run with the cow, the 

 most advisable mode — as it regards the calf 

 — is to place it loose in a crib, and to suckle 

 it by hand with the mother's new milk, of 

 which it will consume, for some time, not more 

 than about four quarts a day; the quantity, 

 however, must then be gradually increased, 

 as it will, in the course of a few weeks, re- 

 quire as much as three gallons. If the wea- 

 ther be fine, it should be, within a fortnight 

 or three weeks, turned out daily in the orchard, 

 or some well-sheltered inclosure of sweet 

 herbage ; and as it will, in the course of ten or 

 twelve weeks, have acquired some relish for 

 the pasture, it may be regularly weaned by 

 gradually diminishing the quantity of milk, 

 and then substituting the skimmed for the 

 new. The calf may, however, be reared with 

 skimmed milk and meal, without any portion 

 of new milk, except the few days of beestings ; 

 and many persons give them nothing but 

 water-gruel, or pot-liquor and hay-tea, within 

 a fortnight after they have been removed from 

 the cow. This, however, is poor diet ; but 

 hay-tea and linseed jelly are very nutritious, 



