84 THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF 



with separated milk, as mixed meals, linseed 

 cake meal, linseed meal, and boiled linseed. 

 We cannot, however, do better than recom- 

 mend the practice of paying visits to successful 

 farmers and seeing how they do their work, 

 and of reading the agricultural papers in 

 which this and cognate subjects are fre- 

 quently described. It is important, to 

 add that the success obtained in rearing 

 calves depends almost entirely upon the 

 breed, careful and liberal feeding, perfect 

 cleanliness, and freedom from disease, the 

 worst of which is scour, or diarrhoea, which 

 usually follows uncleanliness or careless feed- 

 ing, or infection through the navel cord. 

 There are instances in which it would be folly 

 to feed a calf at all unless it were of excep- 

 tional value, as, for instance, when the whole 

 of the milk is required for retail customers; 

 but where a calf is a strong heifer, the produce 

 of a first-rate milker and of a bull of equally 

 first-rate blood, it is better to purchase milk 

 for a few weeks for the supply of customers 

 until it can be fed at a cheaper rate. 



The pig is at all times a factor on a 

 Small Holding, especially where the land 

 is devoted to the culture of potatoes. It 

 may be safely estimated that by good 



