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CALVES. Calves designed for veal should be taken from 

 the cow the next day after they are calved. They should 

 be permitted to suck only two teats during the first week, 

 three during the second, and should have the whole of the 

 milk the third and fourth w^cek, at the end of which time 

 they will be fit to kill. The teats not allowed to be sucLed 

 should be previously milked. 



When calves are to be reared, some permit them to run 

 with the cow, and take all the milk the first season. But 

 fine animals are raised without taking any milk from the cow 

 after three or four days. They should have more or less 

 milk for about twelve weeks. They may be fed with skim- 

 med milk or water gruel after the first fc^tnight ; or hay 

 tea maybe mixed with their milk, or their milk may be mix- 

 ed with meal and water. After a calf has sucked or drank 

 milk for the space of a month, take some fresh and sweet 

 hay, and put small locks of it into cieft sticks, in such a 

 manner that the calf can easily have access to them, and he 

 will soon learn to eat hay. 



Whether calves are intended to be fattened or to be rear- 

 ed, it is best to feed them three times a day. 3"t whether 

 they are fed tAvo or three times, the intervals between their 

 meals should be regular, and as nearly as possible equi-distant. 



The method for rearing calves pursued by Mr. Crook, as 

 mentioned in ' The Letters and Papers of the Bath and 

 West of England Society,'' is as follows : He purchased three 

 sacks of linseed, value 21. 2s., (equal to about nine dollars,) 

 which lasted him three years. One quart of seed was boiled 

 in six quarts of water for ten minutes, to a jelly, which was 

 given to the calves three times a day mixed with a little hay 

 tea. And he states that his calves throve much belter than 

 those of his neighbors, which were fed with milk. Thus it 

 seems that less than eighteen cents' worth of flax-seed, with 

 a trifle of hay, is sufficient for one calf. Linseed oil cakes, 

 when pulverized and boiled, make an equally good broth or 



If skim-milk is given to calves it should be boiled, and 

 suffered to stand till it cools to the temperatu^^e of that first 

 given by the cow. It is better J^oiled than when warmed 

 only. If the milk be given too cold it will cause the calf Co 

 purge. If this is the case, put two or three spoonfuls of 

 runnet into the milk, and it will stop the looseness. If the 

 calf is bound, pork broth is said to be a good and safe thing 

 to put into the milk. 



