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Reariiit/ of Calves. 
them to partake of wliat is set before them. At most, the guidance 
of the fingers may be wanted for the first meal or two. 
As regards the quantity of milk which is needful to keep a 
moderately bred short-horn calf in a thriving condition, we have 
found the following allowance to come pretty near the mark, 
although the appetite of calves varies, both in individuals and at 
different times with the same animal : — 
1st week with the dam ; or 4 quarts per day, at two meals. 
2nd to 4th week, 5 to G (juarts per day, at two meals. 
4th to (kh week, 6 to 7 quarts ditto ditto. 
And the quantity need not, during the ensuing six weeks (after 
which it is weaned), exceed a couple of gallons per day. This 
implies that the calf is fed upon new milk only, and that no 
other feeding liquids are emjiloyed. But, in addition to the above, 
the calf will, towards the fourth week, begin to eat a little green 
hay ; and, in a week or two later, some sliced roots, or meal, or 
finely crushed cake, mixed with hay-chaff ; and, if really good, 
creditable beasts arc wanted — such as will realize 25Z. a-head from 
the butcher when turned two and a half years old — a little cake or 
meal in their early days will be found a desirable investment. 
In fact, we doubt not but one pound of cake per day to the calf 
will make as much flesh as triple the quantity of cake at any 
period of after life. As regards meal, if that is given with the 
chaff, we prefer oatmeal, or barley-meal, or wheaten flour, but not 
the meal of beans or peas. Others may see it differently, but we 
believe beans to be too heating for any class of young stock. For 
roots, the best we know of is the carrot, grated and mixed with 
the chaff, or sliced thin with a knife and given alone. It is also, 
of all roots, the one which we find them most fond of, and which 
they will most readily take to. As soon as they can eat them freely, 
an immediate reduction in the supply of milk may be made. 
In most articles it holds good in the end that " the best is the 
cheapest." So with the rearing of calves ; the best class of food, 
or that above referred to, is found to give the greatest ultimate 
satisfaction. But practically the question often is, how to rear 
good calves with comparatively little new milk, a condition 
which circumstances often render almost imperative ; for where 
dairy produce, in any other form, is the chief object, the calves 
stand in a secondary position, and are treated accordingly. 
But let us ask whether you cannot rear good stock under such 
circumstances also? We believe that this may be, and often 
is done. We manage to turn out from twenty-five to thirty 
calves annually — such as will pass muster anywhere — and never 
use at any one time more than six gallons of new milk daily. 
For this purpose, as well as to obtain a regular supply of milk 
