50 THE DAIRY OF THE FARM. 



cost one half as much. Taking them in succession, 

 a couple at a time, and eking out with hay tea, and meal, 

 and linseed, ten calves may very well be reared in the course 

 of the season on the milk of a single cow. It is well to 

 leave the calf with its mother for a week or two in the case 

 of young cows ; they are better milked by their young ; 

 and if carefully stripped in addition at least once a day by 

 hand, are likely to yield more milk, and to yield it more 

 easily in the future than if the calf be taken early from it, 

 as it may from older cows. 



It is proper that mention should be made here of the 

 various artificial calf foods, by Messrs. Bowick, Messrs. 

 Bibby, and other manufacturers, by which the use of milk 

 in calf feeding may be economised, and by which skim 

 milk may be enriched. Ample experience exists of their 

 efficiency for this purpose : and of the saving which they 

 enable the farmer to make. The use of hay tea, too, has 

 long been known as a great help in economical calf rearing. 



