1782. 



NORFOLK. 



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70. 



RF.ARIN'G 

 CALVES. 



Mr. John Waller brings up fix : takes 

 them off at two or three days or a week old : 

 milk twice a day as long as he can give it j 

 and then once a day as long as he has it ; gives 

 alfo hay, turneps, and bran ; but no oats. 



Mr. John Joy takes them off at about a fort- 

 night old : milk twice a day for about a month, 

 and once a day for a month or fix weeks lon- 

 ger ; until they can be turned out in the fpring 

 into a pightle of turneps : alfo gives them tur- 

 neps, hay, and barley-flraw, which, by way 

 of a change, they eat as well as hay. Mr. Joy 

 generally lofes fome every year in the gargut. GARGUT. 

 He fays, as foon as they are dead there is a jel- 

 ly formed between the fkin and the flefh : they 

 are taken fuddenly, and die prefently after being 

 taken : fome bleed and rowel them with "gar- 

 gut-root" (btlleborus fanidus) in their tail or 

 dewlap , feldom recover. 



Mr. , of South-Reps, begins between 



Michaelmas and Chriftmas. Takes them from 

 the cow about three weeks or a month old, and 

 endeavours to make them "lufty;" gives 

 them about half a pint of milk once a day, 

 with hay, oats, and bran ; but no turneps. I 

 alked him why ? He gave me for anfwer, that his 

 father, mother, himfelf, nor any of the family, 



had 



