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is sold to private customers, the cows should 



calve some months apart. One cow, for 



example, should calve in September or 



October, in order that there may be a good 



winter supply, and the other early in the 



spring; thus there would be a supply of 



milk throughout the year. Close attention 



should be paid to the time of rest — i.e. the 



period of at least six weeks between drying 



and calving — to calving, to malk fever, and 



other dominant diseases, to dangerous 



attacks like hoven, and to the rearing of 



the calf. 



If a calf is not good enough to rear for 



sale or milking purposes, it should be 



converted into veal as rapidly 



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as possible, drinking from the 



pail ; if, however, it is a good one, in all 



respects, it should be reared on whole milk 



for two to three weeks, after which the 



cream may be rentoved in increasing 



quantities and supplanted with cod-liver 



or cotton seed oil, until, when the milk 



being entireh'^ skimmed, the oil supplied 



will have reached four table-spoonfuls, or 



two ounces daily, given at four meals. The 



subject of feeding calves, however, is a 



study of itself. Various substitutes are used 



