On Breeding Cows for the Dairy. 63 
makes a rich and wholesome food, which may be kept in cool 
weather a number of days. A sufficient quantity put into skim 
milk or whey, warmed to the temperature of new milk, and stirred 
until sufficiently incorporated, makes a hearty food, and great 
care should be taken at first, that it be not too rich. A sufficiency 
of whey or milk should be used to satisfy, to a reasonable extent, 
the appetite, but not to satiate it. When the calf is old enough 
to eat grass, the quantity should be lessened, but made richer, but 
it requires great care; the danger is in over-feeding. It will 
readily be perceived that the work of taking care of a dozen or 
more, is but little more than of two or three. If during this pro- 
cess of feeding, they should scour, as it is usually termed, milk 
warmed to about ninety degrees, with the same quantity of ren- 
net, that is used to curd milk for cheese, stirred in and fed a few 
times, will usually regulate the stomach and remove the difficulty, 
when the other feed may be carefully resumed. This it will 
readily be perceived is a cheap feed. I have tested it by actual 
experiment, and have grown fine stock, therefore do not hesitate 
to recommend it. 
Heifer calves reared in this way, with good care and keeping, 
may come into the dairy at two years old, to good advantage. 
They can be made as large as three year olds usually are, with 
ordinary keeping; and it is confidently believed that the keeping 
of the last year of the three year old, will more than pay the ex- 
tra expense of keeping well the two years; and it is believed that 
dairy-men might, in this way, rear a sufficient number of heifer 
calves from their best milkers, to keep their stock of cows good, 
at a profit. 
Much has be'en written and said of late, as to the best breeds 
for the use of the dairy. Most of our cows now, are of mixed 
breeds, and it is doubted whether any further crossing would im- 
prove them. Most of the imported breeds are of large size, have 
been too high fed and too much pampered to suit our climate and 
feed. Pampered aristocratic stock, whether with two or four 
legs, is not suited to our county. It is a rule well settled by a 
