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forced his finger and thumb upward, asl 

 it were into the body of the calf, (which 

 flood on its legs during the operation) draw- 

 ing the " blood firing" twelve or fourteeti 

 inches long : the point of it appearing not 

 abrupt, as if broken off; but fine as a 

 thread, as if wholely extracted. 



4. Treatment of rearing Calves. This dif- 

 fers in the practice of different individuals. 

 In an inftance which, perhaps, may be con- 

 fidered as a fair fpecimen, the treatment is 

 this : The calf never fucks its dam j but 

 has her milk warm from the teat given to it 

 twice a day in a pail ; from the time of 

 calving until it be a fortnight or three weeks 

 old. At that age the calves begin to have 

 half new milk and half ikim-milk, boiled 

 (which is thought to be more ' nourifhing" 

 than raw milk) for about three weeks longer : 

 they are then put to all fkim-milk, or to milk 

 and water, with perhaps a little oat-meal of 

 wheat flour fire wed over it * ; and with hay, 



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* Sometimes a fmall quantity of LINSEED JBLY if 

 nuxt with thin milk and water, and is found of great 

 fervice ; mak'ng their fltms remarkably fleck and filky. 

 If too much be ufed, it is liable to make them'fcour. 



