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at the commencement he will easily realise £$ or £6 more at 

 a year old than an ordinary store bullock of the same age. 



Milk Substitutes. — On milk-selling and cheese-making farms 

 separated milk is not available, and without it calf-rearing 

 becomes a difficulty ; not that it is difficult to devise from a 

 table of food-stuffs a calf meal that shall closely resemble milk 

 in its digestible constituents, but it cannot be done without at 

 the same time introducing a much larger amount of indigestible 

 matter than occurs in milk ; the consequence is that, as a rule, 

 calves reared on calf meals alone are " pot-bellied," badly-grown 



Fig. 2. — Heifer Calf, io months old, weighing 5 cwt. 1 qr. 10 lb. 



animals, instead of having the well-grown, level-fleshed, and 

 alert appearance of milk-fed ones. 



This question of indigestible matter, and that of choosing meals 

 that will agree with the calf, constitute the practical difficulties ; 

 and yet probably most milk-sellers and cheese-makers would 

 be glad to rear the heifer calves from their best milking cows 

 if there was a fair prospect of doing so successfully with very 

 little milk. The following meals have proved to be good milk 

 substitutes, and, used as directed, provide an albuminoid ratio 

 about the same as that in new milk : — 



