Practical Agriculture. 
raiding water ; this is used in the evening, and a sufficient 
uantitj of scalding water is added to the hay-leaves, which are 
Dvered down for next morning. The hay-tea is very sweet, 
ark in colour, and the extract of the different herbs probably 
jsists digestion. Again the mess is stirred, and 7 lbs. of mixed 
our well worked in. This mixture consists of one-third wheaten 
our, one-third barley, and one-third bean-flour. Sufficient cold 
ater is added to fill the 6-gallon bucket, and the whole is well 
irred. • Two quarts of this, with 2 quarts of cold water, are 
ifficient for a calf at a meal, and the mixture has about the 
ght temperature. The food is given at regular hours — say 
in the morning, and 6 at night. Each bucket of gruel is 
meal for from twelve to fifteen calves, and costs about Is. 6d. ; 
Sd. a day for each calf. The food is always measured 
ith a two-quart cup, so as never to overload the stomach 
a young calf. After fifteen days, when the calf chews the 
d, some of the difficulty and danger are passed, and when the 
'If eats well, the quantity of gruel is gradually diminished, 
'be calves are tied up while being served, and they suck 
"*rough the cow-man's fingers, as this prevents bolting, and a 
oper quantity of air is also taken in. As soon as they can 
't, crushed corn, sweet hay, and roots, are placed within their 
ich ; vetches also when available, and mangolds when prac- 
'';able. The calves live in a cool well-ventilated house, are 
pt very clean and quiet, supplied with fresh water daily, and 
fe manure is frequently removed. 
During the first winter Mr. Ruck uses the following mixture 
efood for his calves : — 5 cwts. of straw-chaff, 10 cwts. of pulped 
;ingolds, 1 cwt. of oilcake, and 4 cwts. of mixed crushed corn ; 
; t together and allowed to heat moderately. This gives a ton 
" food superior to hay at a cost of about 50s. 
Weaning from milk and bucket-food altogether comes at Weaning. 
Irious ages, according to the customs of different managers ; 
1'"ee to four months being the most common age, though 
uny calves are reared without tasting any milk after they are 
(o months old. 
The most prevalent ailments of young cattle are scour or Ailments of 
<irrhoea, and hoose or catarrh, from which great losses often 
• 3ur; and another special danger to which they are liable is 
((•arter-ill, or black-leg. 
Weaned calves and yearlings are usually run thinly upon the Grazing cnlve 
' -ep pastures during the summer, changing them according to 
< cumstances, as they seem to require it ; sometimes from a 
nd to inferior pasture, or vice versa, or any salutary change 
t the farm will afford. It is found a capital thing to have 
adows on soil quite different from that of the general grazings, 
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