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milk. The plan was accepted, and at it the girls went 

 in good earnest, and I tell you learned a good many 

 things that will prove useful as long as they live. We 

 read the dairy department in all the agricultural 

 papers that came to the house — learned how to feed 

 calves. The first lot were fed according to Winslow 

 Bros., from an article in the Live Stock Journal on that 

 subject. A certain proportion of oil meal was to be 

 fed, but by some hook or crook it read flax-seed meal. 

 We procured the meal and fed according to directions. 

 In the spring something was wrong with our conscien- 

 tiously fed calves. They did not shed their hair, look- 

 ing like young buffalo as they moved about in the sleek 

 herd, and furnished good cause for many sly jokes_ 

 from the boys of the family. To make that hair shed, 

 we increased the meal ratio, with no effect. By accident 

 we found out that there was this mistake in the direc- 

 tions. Those calves came out all right though we 

 thought a little better than the calves that got their 

 food directly from the cow. We fed flax-seed meal 

 afterwards, but used it more sparingly. 



The feeding of the cows we had nothing to do with ; 

 but how quickly we learned that the feed had every- 

 thing to do with the flow of the milk. When we found 

 how valuable oats were for food for milk cows, it was 

 no work at all to give them an extra feeding ourselves — 

 that extra feed paid us well, but our father w x as strongly 

 of the opinion it did not pay him; so much so that we 

 were obliged to discontinue the extra feed. 



We found some things about the dairying disagree- 

 able and others pleasant, just like any other work. 



At first we did a great deal of guessing. We tried 

 the temperature of the cream by our grandmother's 

 thermometer — the finger — and guessed it was right to 



