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no objection if I offered a couple of suggestions that 

 seem to me to be valuable. Of course, they may be 

 quite well known, but there are sure to be a few back- 

 ward farmers like myself who will be glad to be en- 

 lightened. The first deals with the value of the old- 

 style wire fences when feeding calves. The most an- 

 noying thing about feeding calves in a pen is that 

 when trying to teach a new calf to feed without the 

 finger a man usually has to step inside. While he is 

 wresthng with the beginner other calves will try to 

 get into the pail or to get nourishment from his coat- 

 tail, occasionally administering a bunt to express 

 dissatisfaction with the taste of the cheap dyes they 

 now use in cloth. If you have the right kind of wire 

 fence around your calf pasture you can keep on your 

 side of it and let the calf stick his head through. 

 As his head is the part you really have to deal with 

 you can gradually teach him to take his milk with- 

 out inhaling too much, and at the same time you have 

 less trouble in slapping interfering calves on the 

 nose. The wire fence has robbed calf-feeding of half 

 of its terrors for me. So much for that suggestion. 

 The other has to do with greedy horses. One of our 

 horses usually tries to get all her oats in one mouth- 

 ful, and, when she tries to chew them she scatters 



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