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 SECTION XXIX. 



Method of Fattening Calves to the left 

 Adva ntage: 



TO make calves fat in the fpeedieft manner, 

 take the milk from the cow and boil it, and let it 

 fland to be cool enough for the calf to drink.' 

 By this method the flefh will become white 

 without bleeding , the veal will be juicy, have 

 a good flavour, and be much better for eating, 

 than the calf whofe juices had been fo much 

 exhausted and dried by frequent bleedings, that 

 the flefh has no more nourishment [ in it than 

 the pith of a willow-flick* It is very proper to 

 give the calf in the middle of the day a ball or 

 two mixed up with common gin, which not 

 only will promote fleep, but will prevent the 

 milk from turning four on his ftomach, and like- 

 wife keep his body regularly open. A fmall 

 glafs of gin is fufficient to wet flour enough for 

 two balls y and no other ingredients are re- 

 quired. Thefe balls are not to be ufed before 

 the calf is a month old. The calf cannot be 

 kept in too clofe a place: he fhould be well 

 bedded with clean ftraw; and the place where 

 he ftands fhould be made flanting, fo that all 



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