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Calf Rearing. 



The carcases of animals which have died of quarter ill should 

 be buried in accordance with the rules laid down for anthrax, or, 

 still better, cremated on or in the place where the animal died. 



All dung, fodder, litter, or other materials of a like character 

 which may have been on or about places or sheds where animals 

 have died should be burnt, or thoroughly mixed with some 

 powerful disinfectant and buried in a part of the premises to 

 which cattle and sheep do not have access. The sheds, par- 

 ticularly the flooring and mangers, should be thoroughly washed 

 and scrubbed with a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid, and it 

 would be prudent to repeat the process before they are again 

 used for cattle or sheep.* 



Calf Rearing. 



In an article contributed to the Weekly Live Stock Report 

 (Chicago), of nth September, 1903, Mr. George Prentice gives 

 the details of the procedure followed on his farm in Fifeshire of 

 allowing his cows to suckle several calves. 



The herd was started, in the east of Scotland, in 1888, by the 

 purchase of thirty Dutch (Holstein) yearling heifers, which were 

 put to a pure Shorthorn bull. In the following year they were 

 allowed to suckle their own calves, and again crossed with a 

 Shorthorn bull. In 1890 fifteen were sold in calf as milch cows, 

 the intention being to introduce a certain number of newly- 

 imported yearlings each year ; but the closing of the British 

 ports to the introduction of live stock (except for slaughter) 

 prevented this. The Dutch cow, or a cross of it, being a heavy 

 milker and of a tractable disposition, is well suited for rearing 

 calves on the plan adopted in this herd, which is as follows : — 



The heifers with their first calves are allowed to suckle them 

 for four months, when these are taken away from their mothers 



* Copies of this article in leaflet form may be obtained free of charge and post 

 free on application to the Secretary, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. 4, Whitehall 

 Place, London, S.W. 



