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.ne family, or for dairy purposes, calves may be fed on 

 scalded skimmed milk, thickened with meal, given 

 warm, three times a day. It is better for the calf and 

 cow for him to suck one or two days ; then learn him to 

 drink new milk, by holding the hand in the vessel of 

 milk, and turning up the fingers in his mouth. Change 

 gradually to porridge. He will soon learn. 



We have raised calves in this way that were worth 

 as much as others raised on pure milk, and all ran 

 together. Pure milk generally gives the best growth 

 while sucking, but those that are fed may be weaned 

 more gradually, and are less affected by the change. 

 We had only one cow that calved early, and we bought 

 another calf, and two pigs, and fed all four on the 

 skimmed milk, and had milk to use in the family, and 

 made butter enough for a small family and some to sell ; 

 all from one cow. They all did well, very well. 



We have been told that hasty pudding (mush) and 

 milk are better than porridge. In artificial feeding, 

 keep the vessel very clean, and scald it out often, and 

 let it dry, and have the milk a little more than blood 

 warm when first given, as it will cool a little before 

 eaten. If calves scour badly, give a mess or two of 

 new milk ; if it continue, attend to the remedies recom- 

 mended for that complaint ; but this will seldom occur, 

 if the following directions be attended to, which are 

 necessary under anv course of feeding : Keep calves in 

 a clean pen, throwing in earth to absorb all impurities, . 

 and frequently remove and renew it. Keep by them a. 

 box of pure yellow earth, and some wood ashes, and a 

 lump of chalk to lick ; then they will seldom have tht 

 scours. 



WTien two or three weeks old, give them a little sweet 

 slover hay, if they do not have access to grass ; and when 

 three or four weeks old, commence giving them gradu- 

 ally a few roots, cut fine ; carrots are best. In artificial 

 feeding, flax-seed has been used to great advantage in 

 making fine calves, and with great economy. 



The Quality of Milk for Calves. Cows that give a 

 arge quantity of milk are better for nursing calves than: 

 those that give a small quantity of rich milk. There-- 

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