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make them heave as if they were ready to burft. 

 The giving them oats and bran will! prevent 

 this; efpeciaily if you take the precaution of 

 tying them up clofe, for that every one will al- 

 low to be a fure preventative. 



It is always to be underftood, that calves 

 reared in this manner are to be enticed to eat 

 hay as. early as poffible; and the beft way of 

 doing this is to give them the fweetefh hay 

 in your poiTeiljon^ and to give them little at a 

 time. Turnips or potatoes are very good food, 

 as foon as they can eat them •, and they are beft 

 cut iinal], and mixed with the hay, oats, 

 bran, &c. 



It i^ not abfolutely necefTary to give m.^lk tc» 

 calves after they are one month oldj and to 

 wean them gradually,, two quarts of milk, with 

 the addition oflinfeed boiled in water to make 

 a gruel, and given together, will anfwcr the 

 purpofc, until by dimiinifning the milk gradu- 

 ally the calf will foon do entirely v.uthout. Hay- 

 tea will anTwer the purpofe, vvith the like ad-, 

 dition of two quarts of milk, but is not fo nu- 

 tritive as linfeed. Jlay-rea is made in the famiC 

 jxianner asv>'e make the dj?coction from the Chi- 



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