the Farming of the Duchies of Schleswiy and liolstein. 337 
Not unfrequently, the cows continue to give milk without intermission, and 
the milk-fever is therefore a dreaded enemy, which formerly carried off two or 
three of the best cows every year. In order to avoid this loss, the cows are fed 
very scantily when milking is discontinued, sometimes only with straw and hay, 
and yet it is very often necessary to milk them before calving. Sometimes 
the heifers are also put on the same fare; but it is not always that it has the 
desired effect. 
The calves are reared as follows : — During the first four to five days the calf 
gets nothing but about 5 quarts per day of its mother's milk as it comes from 
the cow. During the second week it gets the same quantity of new milk as 
it comes from the cow, and nearly half a gallon of skimmed milk. The third 
week its daily allowance is rather more than a gallon of new milk and the same 
quantity of skimmed milk ; fourth week, two-thirds of a gallon of new milk 
and 2 gallons of skimmed milk ; fifth week, 3 gallons of skimmed milk ; sixth 
week, 3i gallons of skimmed milk; seventh week, 2^ gallons of skimmed 
milk and water, j D. lb. of meal, hay, and a little oilcake in the rack ; eighth 
week, 7 quarts of skimmed milk and water, f D. lb. meal, hay and a little 
oilcake ; ninth week, water, J D. lb. meal and hay, oilcake and turnips. The 
skimmed milk must be well boiled and given warm until the ninth week, 
after which time it is given colder by degrees. If the calves get diarrhoea, 
three table-spoonfuls of Danish corn-brandy, is given them daily. The meal, 
which is half barley and half oats, is at first mixed with warm water. The 
calves thrive well, and it is very seldom that any deaths occur. 
The heifers are brought into the herd either as 3 -year-olds, which calve in 
October to December, or as 25-year-olds, which calve in April and May. Mr. 
Heide has made the following calculation of what it costs to bring up a heifer 
to the age of 3 years, when it is brought into the herd in the autumn and is 
to calve during November or December : — 
New 
Milk. 
Skimmed 
Milk. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
Ist week, 7 days, at 12 lbs.* new-milk 
84 
2Dd ,,7 , 
. 12 
and 4 lbs. skim-milk 
84 
'28 
3rd ,,7 , 
, 10 . , 
10 ,. 
1 1 
70 
70 
4th ,,7 , 
6 ,, ,, 
18 ,, 
1 1 
42 
126 
5th ,,7 , 
6 , , , , 
28 
196 
6th ,,7 , 
6 ,, 
32 ,. 
224 
7th ,.7 , 
6 ,, 
24 ,. 
1 1 
168 
8th .,7 , 
) 1 1 II 
16 
1 ) 
112 
280 
924 
* Danish lbs. ; add one-tenth to ascertain the weight in English lbs. 
Calculating the new milk at 2 sk. per D. lb. (about £ s. d. 
Id. per English lb., or 5d. per gallon), and the 
skimmed milk at 5 sk. per D. lb. (or lie?, per 
gallon), a calf when two months old will cost .. 1 3 8i 
During March, April, and May the food consists of 
1 D. lb. meal daily = 90 D. lbs. meal at 3 sk. (100 
lbs. at f d.) 00 3 
J skp. (J bushel) turnips = 3 brls. turnips at 3 marks 0 3 4^ 
3 D. lbs. hay = 270 D. lbs. hay at 1 sk. (300 lbs. 
at id.) 0 G 3 
Oa the 1st June the calf, at five months old, has cost 
1 19 7 
