186 BREEDING. 



all cases it is better to keep one or two sucking for a short time, to 

 prevent milk fever, and from motives of humanity also. If, how- 

 ever, it is decided to destroy all at once, take them away as fast as 

 they are born, leaving only one with the mother to engage her at- 

 tention, and when all are born, remove the last before she has 

 become used to it, by which plan less cruelty is practised than if 

 she is permitted to attach herself to her offspring. Low diet and 

 a dose or two of mild aperient medicine, with moderate exercise, 

 will be required to guard against fever, but at best it is a bad 

 business, and can only be justified under extraordinary circum- 

 stances. 



