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are tlie pustules made by tlie acarus, an insect wliieli causes this dis- 

 ease by burrowing in the skin. These parasites increase rapidly and 

 cause the poor sheep great torment, under which they will soon pine 

 and die unless cured. This can readily be done by a thorough wash- 

 ing with a strong decoction of tobacco. It would be best to rnb off 

 the scabs with a good stiff brush before applying the tobacco water. 

 As soon as a sheep shows any signs of the disease it ought to be 

 removed from the flock and immediately treated. There is no diffi- 

 culty in eftecting cures, and generally from one application. 



Care of Young Stock. 



Mr. Pope Bushnell, Bethany, Pa. — The rearing of calves was 

 lately touched by a writer to the Club, who gave his method of feed- 

 ing, I was glad to see it. For many years I have been raising calves 

 with varied results. More than twenty years ago I abandoned the 

 ancestral custom of feeding them and adopted a new one, anxious to 

 do better by the dear little creatures, in order that they might do 

 better by me. If designed for farm stock, they are tied at one or 

 two da3'S old, fed with new milk from four to six weeks, then untied 

 and allowed the liberty of the stable, fed on skim milk twice a day, 

 with what good fine hay they will eat, with a little meal, vmtil after 

 fly time is passed, then turned into good rowen feed, fat and strong, 

 weighing then 350 to 400, and without special care, if well fed, go 

 through the winter hearty, and at thirty months will ordinarily 

 weigh, alive, 1,200 to 1,400, occasionally 1,500. 



Every stock farmer is liable to have some late or mid-summef 

 calves. Such ones I place immediately in the stable, allow them to 

 suck all they will twice a day, until four or five months old, when they 

 are sold to the butcher, commonly fetching forty dollars to fitiy dol- 

 lars each, I keep best fed cows, farm principally stocked with young 

 cattle. 



In 1S68 one of my heifers, two years old, dropped a calf in the 

 fall. It was placed in the stable, allowed to suck twice a day, and 

 after the two first months it was, at noon, fed a little meal, with good 

 mellow apples, at all times allowed access to good fine hay, until 

 near four months old, when it was sold to a drover for forty-five dol- 

 lars,*at the stable, live weight at the time 4Y0 pounds. In the sum- 

 mer of 1869 I fed three calves for market. They all came sometime 

 after midsummer, two of them from one cow ; they, the twins, were 

 placed in stable immediately, treated precisely like the one above refer- 



