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as much in the evening with great relish. 

 Still more solid food will be taken ; linseed 

 cake, crushed oats, barley, maize and pea meals 

 are all beneficial to a degree, although good 

 unchopped hay given ad lib. is probably the 

 best. A few carrots or swedes may be given 

 pulped with the chaff. 



In the fourth and fifth months there is little 

 change to make in the meals, only that more 

 must be gradually supplied and more fresh air 

 given. The milk is gradually withdrawn and 

 stopped at five months old, and the food in- 

 creased thereafter to make up for it ; also 

 water must be supplied. 



It is, of course, only where butter is made 

 that the separated milk referred to will be 

 available. On farms where the milk is sold 

 off whole no separated milk is available as a 

 rule, and in such cases the calves may be 

 reared on milk substitutes, the whole milk being 

 stopped after the first fortnight. Numerous 

 substitutes for milk have been recommended, 

 and a good one is three pounds per day of the 

 following : — two parts linseed cake, one part 

 crushed linseed, and two parts oatmeal, the 

 whole mixed with five quarts of boiling water 



