190 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The milking takes place twice a day at the time of the morning 

 and evening feeding. The average time of going dry is three 

 months ; the number of milk days, 275. The milk is sold to a 

 dairyman and cheese-maker. 



Young stock, not wanted on the farm, is sold at public auction 

 twice a year, in May and October. The average price for bulls 

 from a year to a year and a half old, is $58.47. The highest 

 price for any one animal was 1172.20. 



The raising of calves is artificial from birth. They are taken 

 from the dam and fed from the pail. They do exceedingly 

 well ; the cow is less disquieted and the trouble is less than if 

 the calves suckle the cow. The latter is allowed some days 

 with young cows after the first calf till they get used to being 

 milked. The amount of food given is : — 



1st week, daily, 12 pounds of milk, - pounds of oatmeal, - pounds of fine hay. 



In the ninth week the milk is first mixed with water and a 

 little fine oatmeal. The meal is after that mixed with the 

 dry fodder. After three months the milk is withheld, and then 

 the young animals receive daily, till two and a half years old, 

 from twenty to twenty-two pounds of hay, or its equivalent. 

 But the calves never after receive, even in summer, any but dry 

 food, till they are nine months old. The average feeding is so 

 divided that the younger portion receive less, the older more, 

 till two and a half years, when they begin to receive the regular 

 rations of the older cattle, including the grain fodder as indi- 

 cated above. The growth with this treatment is so remarkable 

 that it is only a little surpassed by the rapidly maturing 

 Shorthorns. 



