778 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



with her morning and evening, and after it has taken a proper 

 amount of milk, if any remains, the cow is milked dry. 



"The writer has attended so many sales of thorough-bred 

 cattle, and seen so many splendid cows made almost worthless 

 from spoiled teats, by allowing the calves to remain with them, 

 and not paying proper attention to having them milked, that he 

 considers it a very unprofitable practice. The calf should have, 

 in addition to the milk, as soon as it is old enough, either hay 

 or grass, shelled corn, or corn-meal and bran. We consider 

 shelled corn a very necessary article of food towards a proper 

 development of the animal. Some writers claim that bulls in- 

 tended for breeding should never be allowed either corn or corn- 

 meal as a part of their ration ; but in our experience of a num- 

 ber of years, we have never seen any injurious effects arising 

 from it. 



"Raising calves for the show-ring we consider as unwise, to 

 say the best of it. They are kept in the stable for months, 

 and sometimes even years, with very little or no exercise, and 

 fed, pampered, and nursed until they are made almost entirely 

 worthless for any thing except for beef, and they are kept fat 

 so long that they are not good for that. The writer, a few 

 years since, in making a tour through the dominion of Canada, 

 inspected a herd, a portion of which were kept especially for the 

 show-ring, and as an advertisement of the herd. We were in- 

 formed that they were kept constantly in the stable during the 

 day, and only turned out for exercise of fine evenings, and the 

 cows, such as would breed, almost as soon as they would drop 

 their calves, were dried off, and the calf provided with another 

 mother. It struck us as all being very nice, but entirely too 

 expensive for the masses." 



Pastures and Grazing. With a calf of good stock, and 

 well cared for until ready to go on grass, at six months or a 

 year old (according to whether it is born in fall or spring), we 

 have made a fair start towards raising a thrifty, well-developed 

 cow or steer, and one that shall give a profit; but the same good 

 management and judgment that has enabled us to grow such a 

 calf, must be exercised in the further development of the animal. 



