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being ^ prevailing cuftom to fpay all heifers 

 intended to be fatted at thrcc-year-old ; but 

 fuch as are intended to be finifhed at two-year- 

 old are, I believe, pretty generally left "open :" 

 as are, of courle, fuch as are intended for the 

 dairy. 



There are two reafons for this pradice : 

 they are prevented from taking the bull too 

 early, and thereby fruflrating the main inten- 

 tion ; and by this precaution they lie more 

 quietly — are kept from roving — at the time of 

 fatting. This may be one reafon why fpayed 

 heifers are thought to fat more kindly at three- 

 year-old, and to be better fleflied, than open 

 heifers. 



The method of treatrdent remains now to be 

 explained. — This depends in fome meafure on 

 the time of rearing : the winter calves require 

 more milk than the later-dropt ones do. 



The general treatment of a calf dropt at 

 Chriftmas may befaid to be this : fucks, twice 

 a day, the firft fortnight : has the pail, twice 

 a day, for the next month or fix weeks : and 

 once a day, for a month or fix weeks longer : — 

 with hay in a rack, and turneps in a manger j 

 and, fometimes, with cats and bran among 



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