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Rearing of Calves. 
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Soi'vcil by. 
Will Culvo. 
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1 
Strawberry .. 
7 
Short-horu 
8-1 
Sir Colin . . 
January 21. 
2 
Myrtle.. .. 
5 
Ditto 
106 
Ditto 
March 4. 
3 
Duchess 
12 
Ditto 
29 
Ditto 
February 17. 
4 
Verbena 
4 
Cross .. .. 
Vanguard 
?><oveniber 4. 
5 
Snowdrop 
6 
Alderney . . 
Ditto 
December 11. 
A g^rcat deal lias been said, l)y writers on the subject, about the 
season of the year when young calves should begin to arrive. 
No doubt it is better, as a general rule, to have the calves well 
forward and ready for early grass, by which means they are so 
strong as to require considerably less attention the following 
winter. But near a town, where a winter dairy is an object, or 
on the establishment of a nol^leman or gentleman, where a supply 
of milk is as indispensable in winter as at any other time, the 
period of calving will, of course, be greatly modified ; or, more 
correctly speaking, there will be a sort of duplicate calving-time, 
extending from October till June. And we know of no reason 
why good calves should not come under the same law whicli the 
Cheshire farmer laid down for the application of dung to the 
grass-land. " Put it on all the year round," said he ; and we 
w^ould say, " Rear calves whenever you have them ;" i.e. if they 
are worth rearing. If you do not consider them worth rearing, 
better to sell them at once at a nominal price ; even such an one 
as we met with in Renfrewshire last yx>ar, where a contract was 
made by a dairyman to deliver 100 bull-calves, at Gs. DJ. per 
head, the buyer removing them on the day of their birth. Not 
that we think taking the calf so early from the cow is by any 
means a humane practice ; nor yet that we should prefer cutlets 
from such veal, although retailed by local butchers and grocers 
at the low rate of 2d. per lb. From the circumstance named, an 
Ayrshire steer is unknown. 
We do not intend collating the pros and cons as to whether 
suckling from the cow, or feeding from the pail, is most desirable 
in the generality of cases. After a pretty full trial both ways 
(although our predilections were in favour of the former as most 
natural and most manageable), we have been forced to the belief 
that the latter is the preferable course for the farmer, and for the 
country at large. In the first place, you can, by an ample allow- 
ance, make quite as precocious a development, it that is the 
object, as by allowing the calf to suck the best cow that can be 
met with. Then you have the satisfaction of knowing exactly 
what Cjuantity of milk is consumed, when you give a stated 
