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Rearing. — Good healthy calves should never be allowed' 

 to stop growing. Should remain with the dam until alL 

 danger of inflammation of the bag is passed. Very soon 

 after being taught to drink they will lap meal, such as 

 ground oats and oil cake. With a little extra care and 

 feed your yearling will be as large and fully developed as 

 the ordinary two year old, and you have thereby saved 

 whole year's keeping, and have a superior animal. Being 

 used to being handled and petted will the more likely 

 make gentle and tractable cows. 



Usefulness. The ordinary heifer enters the daijy during 

 her third year. Arrives at her best when six or seven, 

 and declines more or less rapidly after eight years of age. 

 Every cow should be allowed to go dry for two or more 

 months, at each j)eriod of gestation, and have her grain 

 ration materially lessened until near the period of parturi- 

 tion, when a little feed of roots with ground oats and oil 

 meal will improve her appetite and general health. 



Care. — In order to produce good, pure milk, the prem- 

 ises must be kept in a thoroughly sanitary condition, and 

 the cows have in abundance all those elements, which not 

 only go to give a bountiful supply of milk, but keep the 

 cow in perfect health as well. In summer a full sup- 

 ply of fresh grass, supplemented by more or less grain 

 while giving milk, and free access to fresh running water. 



How seldom do we ever hear of any systematic attempt 

 being made to improve the cow pasture, from which has 

 been taken crop after crop without any return, even for 

 centuries. Brush and briers cover the lowlands, and white 

 top the sidehills. Building and keeping up fences around 

 three or four times as much land as needed, if it were only 

 kept cleaned up, and have an occasional dressing of Phos- 

 phate, Plaster, Ground-hone atid Wood-ashes in part pay- 

 ment for the yearly robbery which has been going on these 

 many years, unmolested. A few slieep with the cows 



