THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



needed to clear the intestines, and regulate 

 the functions of nature. Test the milk when 

 drawn from the cow, and always have the 

 calf's food the same temperature for the first 

 three weeks; after which it can be gradually 

 lowered. With the first four calves we used 

 cloth teats, to teach them to suck, but soon 

 learned that it was almost as difficult to wean 

 them from the rags as it would have been 

 from their mothers, and that they would 

 learn, from the first, just as readily to suck 

 the milk direct from the pail. 



For two weeks nothing but skim milk is 

 fed. Then two quarts of wheat bran and one 

 quart of oil meal are boiled in a gallon of 

 water for one hour, strained, and half a cup- 

 ful is added to the milk at each feeding for 

 several days, after which the quantity is 

 gradually increased, until the feed is about 

 half gruel and half milk, at which time corn 

 meal is introduced into the gruel, a little at 

 a time, until a quart is being used. 



Let good, clean hay be within reach after 

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