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"were fed on sonr milk, with notliing else l3nt j^rass. I fed tliem all 

 tliey would eat without scouring too much. If they did scour I gave 

 theui rennet. I tliink, among other things, I have proved this, that 

 calves ought never to be fed together. Each should have a mess 

 separate, as no two drink alike. Some drink taster than others, 

 tlierefore get more than is for their good, while the others do not get 

 enough. I think it pays to watch them closely, and see that they get 

 just enough and no more. 



Dr. Trimble. — In some experiments with calves on mj place, the 

 hired man who had charge of them, forgot to feed one in the morn- 

 ing, and thought he would make it all right by giving double quan- 

 tity at night. He did so, and the calf died, a result which proved 

 that the creatures will eat more than is good for them, and that, as 

 the writer of the letter remarks, they need watching. 



Salt for Stock. 



Mr. D. M. Judd, Drayton Plains, Mich., wrote to say that the dis- 

 cussions on this subject called to his mind an incident of an expedi- 

 tion made several years ago under Lieutenant Hernden, of the United 

 States Navy. The expedition started on the west coast of South 

 America, and when near the center of the continent, where grass was 

 the most luxuriant, the cattle and horses were aitticted with weakness, 

 would stagger and lie down, and could not get up. They would draw 

 themselves about, and eat off everything within their reach, until 

 they could draw themselves no farther, and would die of weakness 

 and starv^ation, the appetite holding good to the last. The lieutenant 

 said he could discover no cause for this strange disease, except the 

 want of salt. There was no salt springs or " licks " in the country,, 

 and it was so far inland that the sea hreeze did not reach it, and no 

 way of getting salt except by a long up-stream water communication 

 with small boats. 



Mr. R. L. Lamb, Ransoraville, ^N". Y. — Two years ago last April,, 

 two calves were dropped in my yard, I gave them good ordinary 

 keeping, feeding not more than one bushel apiece of meal up to the 

 age of one year, aiui not a particle of salt. At this time many, who 

 had never thought otherwise than that salt must bo given at least 

 o»ce a week, on seeing my yearlings thought them eijual to many of 

 twice their age, and that I might take a premium upon them at a 

 town fair. About the first of June last they dropped calves, very 

 strong and large. I have milked them, as also an older covr, during- 



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