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Cold milk will produce indigestion if the calves will 

 drink it at all, and a great many won't touch it. 



Mr. Lloyd : One point Mr. Allen spoke of struck 

 me. Our heifers ought to be so brought up that they 

 don't have to be broken, that we can sit down to them 

 when we want to take milk for the first time with- 

 out being knocked down ourselves. When my boys 

 are raising the heifers, when they are feeding them, 

 they go through the same operation as though they 

 were milking them, and when they come to be cows 

 there is no trouble about it. 



Mr. Hitngerford : I have had a little experience 

 in breaking heifers, and I will say three of them were 

 genuine pets, such as Mr. Lloyd speaks of, and they 

 w T ere the meanest things that 1 ever tried in my life, 

 milked the worst. 



Mr. Allen : I have often heard that idea advanced, 

 but I think it is an incorrect one. As far as I have 

 observed, a heifer objects to any such doings as that. 

 There is a time when she wants to be milked, and that 

 time is when she has the milk in her udder to give, 

 and before that they almost always resist any handling 

 of that kind. I have never seen any good come from it. 



The Chairman : I think the great trouble in raising 

 calves on skim-milk is that people do not exercise care 

 enough in feeding ; they are very liable to give an 

 overdose, and it is just as bad to give a calf a pound 

 more than it ought to have, than to give it a pound 

 less, and a little overdose will do a great deal of dam- 

 age. It doesn't matter so much what you give, as 

 how you give it, is my experience. 



