Dairy Farming. 
669 = 405 
.b ; then again 7 lbs. of mixed flour of wheat, oats, barley, and 
;ans ; the whole to be filled up with 2 gallons of cold water, 
his 6 gallons is enough for 12 or 15 calves a day, and it costs 
)out 36?. a day apiece. Two quarts of this gruel are added 
2 quarts of cold water, and, with the addition of what sweet 
iin-milk can be had, this is the daily supply of a calf. 
I have known a case in which 5 cows reared 50 calves, their 
ilk having been also to some extent skimmed for butter for 
e household. The cows were brought to the pail, one after 
lother, from February until May ; and the calves, bought as thev 
uld be got, received each a share of the partly-skimmed milk, 
ore and better milk being given to the very youngest, until 
ey began to suck at and nibble shred swedes and hay ; the 
le addition to this food was oatmeal gruel, half-a-pint of finely 
ound best oatmeal for each calf being put morning and evening 
to about 2 quarts of scalding water, which was cool enough 
d cooked enough by staying there all day or night for use at 
e evening and morning meal respectively, after having thus 
;)od twelve hours. This, with care always to give food which 
: perfectly sweet and not too cold, with attention also to the 
irmth and dryness of the accommodation that is given the calf, 
s reared them in health, without a single loss, during the season, 
will be seen, however, in Mr. Carrington's practice, as already 
• scribed — and it is more and more coming to be generally 
;knowledged- — that for the production of the best and most 
ofitable animals, whether for the dairy or the feeding-stall, 
3 more liberal management of the calf is in the end the better 
ly. To stint the young beast is to diminish its quality as a 
rood doer " from the very beginning. Whether for beef or for 
Ik it is well that good calf-flesh should be established at the 
• tset, and that by no stinginess or severity of after-treatment 
:()uld it be lost. 
When veal is the object, and the desire is to fatten the calf 
; quickly as possible, new milk must be given, as much as 
" 11 be taken, and efforts must also be made to induce the con- 
; mption of oilcake and linseed-meal as early as possible. 
In one or other of these ways, then, the calf is reared ; and 
<fnsidering the large districts over which the most liberal treat- 
!';nt yet prevails, I believe it is not too large an estimate which 
] ts the utilisation of milk in this way at one-sixth of the whole 
i Ik produce of the country. 
