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The Winter and the- Wheat Crop, [march, 



Ordinary scour in young calves is due to acidity, which may be 

 corrected by a dose of bicarbonate of soda, or adding lime-water 

 to the milk. 



For a cold or chill wrap a cake-bag round the calf to keep it 

 warm, and give a dessert-spoonful of sweet spirits of nitre in a 

 little warm water. 



Loss among calves is often attributed to the use of cotton cake 

 with the cows, but at this farm the cows when housed get in the 

 regular way 4 lb. of decorticated cake each per day, and for the 

 latter half of the summer 2 lb., and yet, with the exception of one 

 calf that died from eating moss-litter, one from inflammation of 

 the lungs, and three while receiving the vile-smelling cod-liver oil 

 above referred to, there have been no losses in nine years out of 

 a total of 180 calves born. It should, however, be stated that 

 when a cow's milk falls to five quarts a day, cake is entirely 

 discontinued, as she does not pay for it and can be kept in 

 good condition without it ; so that, practically, no cow gets 

 cotton cake for at least two months previous to calving ; nor 

 does she get cake in the week following ; but after the first week 

 of its life, a calf is fed with the milk of any cow, or with the 

 milk of several, that arc receiving the usual allowance of 

 cotton cake. 



Wm. T. Lawrence. 



THE WINTER AND THE WHEAT CROP* 



It seems early days yet to be speculating about the probable- 

 yield of the wheat crop in 1905, still there are certain considera- 

 tions which may even now be taken into account. Perhaps 

 they are more of a negative than of a positive nature, so many 

 are the changes and chances to which the plant will be subject, 

 before it comes to harvest six or seven months hence. By 

 negative is meant that it was very easy at this time last year 



* This note had been written, except the figures for February, 1905, before the: 

 appearance of the report {The Times, February 7th, 1905) by Mr. W. N. 

 Shaw, F.R.S., Secretary to the Meteorological Office, in which he traces a very 

 close agreement between the autumnal rainfall (September, October, November), 

 and the subsequent wheat crop. It has been thought better not to recast the note in; 

 the light of Mr. Shaw's conclusions, but to let it stand as indicating one factor 

 in the wheat yield. 



