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Calf-Rearing. 



[march, 



Calf Meal No. i. — To be used when a small quantity of separated milk is 

 available : — 



8 parts of oatmeal (by weight). 



1 part of ground linseed. 



Scald 2j lb. over night with five pints of boiling water, boil for ten minutes next 

 morning, and add five pints of separated milk with about \ oz. of salt and 2 oz. 

 sugar. 



No. 2. — When no separated milk is available : — 



2 parts linseed cake meal. 

 2 parts oatmeal. 



1 part ground linseed. 



Mix 3 lb. with five quarts of boiling water over night, and boil for ten minutes 

 next morning ; serve with salt and sugar as with No. I. 



No. 3. — Requiring no boiling : — 



14 parts linseed cake meal. 

 5 parts ground linseed. 



2 parts wheat flour. 



2 parts locust bean meal. 

 Mix 3 lb. with five quarts boiling water and a sprinkle of sal 



Each of these is the day's allowance for a calf, and should be 

 given warm at three meals to one under three months old, and 

 at two meals above that age. Where No. 2 or No. 3 is used 

 it should be introduced and the new milk reduced very gradually 

 thus : — 



First week of calf's life its own mother's milk only. 



Second and third weeks three pints of new milk and one pint 

 of the gruel at each of three meals. 



Fourth and fifth weeks two pints new milk and two pints 

 gruel. 



Sixth and seventh weeks one pint new milk and three pints 

 gruel. 



Eighth week two quarts of gruel and no new milk. 



Hay, of course, would be introduced, as with other calves, 

 at the fifth week. 



Common Ailments. — All sucklings have the habit of sucking 

 anything that comes near their mouths, and calves, perhaps, 

 more than others, and this habit often proves a serious source of 

 ill to the calf and loss to its owner. If together calves suck 

 each other and get an accumulation of hairs in the stomach, 

 which appears to form the nucleus of a hard curd ball that 

 ■eventually causes death : this may be prevented by keeping them 

 in separate pens until they eat hay well, that is, for the first two 

 •months. It sometimes happens, too, that while lying they get in 



