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MINUTES 



FEB. 



REARING 

 CALVES. 



GEN. MAN. 

 OF 



CATTLE. 



Shillings at a fortnight old. Gives them tur- 

 neps, hay, and about three pints of milk, once a 

 day. Says, that too much milk makes them 

 neglect the turneps ; but keep them mort of 

 milk, and they foon take to them : turns 

 them to grafs about the middle of April j by 

 which time he reckons they coft him about 

 twenty {hillings a head ; and fays, that a bud of 

 a year old may be bought for twenty-five {hil- 

 lings. But he adds, that 'bringing them up 

 within himfelf, he does not mifs the charge of 

 them. 



Generally lofes two or three every year by 

 the gargur. 



Mr. James Helfden, of Suffield Eight cows: 

 rears about ten calves ; fats fixteen to twenty 

 bullocks (his farm of the middle fize) : gives 

 his calves hay, turneps, and milk twice a day, 

 while young; after ten weeks or three months, 

 onqe a day : begins about the middle of March 

 to put his oldeil out into a piece of turneps, 

 three or four hours in the middle of the day, 

 to play about and eat the turnep-tops. 



Mr. keeps eight cows ; ufually rears 



eight calves; but turneps being fcarce, he rears 

 none this year, meaning to buy eight or ten buds 

 at the fales* 



Mr. 



