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MINUTES 



FEB. 



69. 



RUNNIXG 

 CALVES. 



REARING 



CATlLi. 



BULLOCKS 

 AT 



FATTING 

 CATTLE. 



them, the wonderful effeft of turneps is fuch 

 that they are getting fat apace : one of the 

 calves (a heifer) is as fleek as a mole ; and 

 has already dropt a dug of confiderable fize : 

 the other is not fo forward ; its mother being 

 very old, and gives little milk. The calves 

 eat turneps as freely as the reft of the cattle. 

 What an admirable end is this for old cows ! 



Some of the three-year-olds, and the two- 

 year-old, are fnayed heifers ; but, through the 

 negligence of the cutter, fome of them have not 

 been clean fpayed, and are frequently running 

 to bull , a circumftance which is of great hin- 

 drance to their fatting. 



Mr. Joy keeps his bullocks entirely abroad; 

 giving them ftraw fcattered over the clofe , or, 

 in hard weather, under the hedges : he never 

 puts them into the yard at night; thinking 

 that driving them backward and forward is 

 prejudicial to their fatting. 



Mr. Jonathan Bond, of South-Reps, has eight 

 two-year-olds at turneps; generally grazing two- 

 year-olds ; this year they are rather backward ; 

 but expeds they will reach about thirty ftone a 

 piece with about iix weeks grafs. Two-year- 

 olds he allows do not ftnifli fo early as the three- 

 year-olds ;-,but, if they be kept well from the 



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