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inducing the flow of milk. The first three weeks' milk in- 

 ducing diarrhoea among children, is usually rejected, /. e. 

 given to calves and cows, or pigs, or utilized for making 

 butter. For the first three weeks after calving a cow is called 

 kcchute (or green). There is usually a new accession to the 

 flow of milk about the 2ist day after calving. If at this time 

 or soon afterwards, the cow is sold to a new owner or 

 removed from one place to another, there is a serious inter- 

 ruption in the flow. This should therefore be regarded as 

 the critical period as far as the yield of milk is concerned, 

 and very careful feeding and treatment must be resorted to 

 and on no account should the attendant be changed at this 

 period. If it is necessary to sell or remove the animal, this 

 should be done before the 2oth day, after calving, or 3 or 

 4 months after calving. 



986. The following foods are helpful in enhancing the 

 quantity and quality of milk: 



(1) 2 seers of boiled mash kalai } r seer of crushed juar 

 and 5 seers of ghol (buttered milk or churned curd) made into 

 a gruel, in addition to grazing. 



(2) Husked ddl of gram well steeped in water, in addition 

 to grazing. 



(3) Cyamopsis psoroiloides cut green before the forma* 

 tion of seed, in addition to ordinary grazing. 



(4) Grazing early in the morning /. ., from 2 A. M. when 

 there is plenty of dew on the grass, in addition to ordinary 

 grazing. 



(5) Dried leaves or green twigs of wild plum (baer) 

 chopped up into small bits given with cotton seed, in addition 

 to ordinary grazing. 



(6) Kanta-notea^&zX fruit and mash kalai boiled together 

 in water given in addition to grazing. 



(7) Silage and bran (say 20 Ibs. -f 4 Ibs.). 



(8) For a large sized cow yielding 12 to 15 seers of milk 

 a day, a very economical mixture is for each feed, 5 seers of 



