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pounds. This is a case where new milk did its best during 

 the first year, and we give it to illustrate the best feeding 

 with whole milk. But, to show that new milk may, with- 

 out injury, be omitted, we give a stronger case with skim- 

 milk and oil-meal : Mr. William Wallace, of Grant Park, 

 Kankakee Co., 111., had a pair of twin grade Short-horn 

 bull calves, dropped April 2, 1870, and named Ellsworth 

 Twins. Their only food the first summer was sour skim- 

 milk, oil-meal and grass. They weighed together, at 6 

 months, 1,340 pounds ; at 1 year old, 1,960 pounds ; at 2 

 years, 3,305 pounds ; at 3 years old, 4,500 pounds. They 

 were weighed at various intermediate times, and made a 

 regular and steady growth. These steers were fed upon 

 grass, hay, oats and corn, in the open air. Their increase 

 was somewhat less the second 6 months than it should have 

 been, which we attribute to the want of proper shelter. It 

 will be seen that they gained only half as much the second 

 as the first six warm months. But they made a greater 

 average weight at 2 years than Uncle Abe, with all the new 

 milk he could take for the first ten months. It is to be 

 regretted that their food of all kinds was not weighed, so 

 as to teach us a most important lesson as to cost of pro- 

 ducing such weight under the system of full feeding ; but 

 we know that it cost less than to have made the same 

 growth in a longer time. 



Let us give another illustration of large growths made 

 upon refuse milk, reported, on good authority, in the 

 Country Gentleman. A grade Short-horn calf, dropped 

 March 1, 1876, was purchased, at four weeks old, by C. H. 

 Farnum, of Concord, N. H., and weighed 160 pounds. He 

 intended it as a mate to one of his own, weighing 205 

 pounds, proposing to raise them for working oxen. Their 

 feed was exclusively skim-milk all they would take. But 

 it was soon apparent that the lightest ealf was outgrowing 

 the other, and he abandoned the idea of using them for 



