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UXySTlUTSiP STOCK, EQCTOU. 
Raising Young Cattle. 
Here again ' the breeder must be guided by . sound judgment., It will 
Hot pay to starve -erven, the commonest stock. A calf, to use a common 
expression, “-knocked in the head with a pail of sldmmed milk,” will 
never make a- -first class steer or cow. Neither is it necessary that they 
suck the cow. In fact; in the case of dairy cows or heifers intended for 
the dairy, they should nbt suck, for it surely tends to diminish the flow 
of milk, except the calf is turned with the cow at stated intervals, and tho 
cow milked' clean ht the same time. In the case of heifers, they should 
be milked as soon as tho calf has drawn the first milk, both as a means of 
training and to develop tho flow of milk as much as possible ; besides this, 
a calf taken at two or three days old is easily taught to suck the finger or 
an artificial teat attached to a reservoir. 
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The First Two Weeks, >- 
They should hare nothing but new milk. It should be as warm as it 
comes from the cow, and the calf should be fed four times a day. Then 
they may have milk twelve hours old, from which the cream has been 
taken, adding four ounces of finely ground meal made into thoroughly 
cooked mush, to each meal', for strong, hearty calves. Thus they may 
be fed for two weeks more, changing to oat-meal or wheat flour if tho 
calf is inclined to scour. Some feeders add a teaspoonful of linseed meal 
once a day. It is not a bad plan. When the calf is four weeks old it 
need be fed but twice a day, giving milk warmed to about ninety or 
ninety-five degrees^ which last is the natural animal heat. From this 
time on more and more mush, or its equivalent may be added as the calf 
increases in size and strength, until it begins to eat grass and threshed 
oats, which it should be encouraged to do. 
Feed Early. 
At ten weeks old it should eat freely, and at three months old it may 
be gradually weaned from milk and taught to subsist on grass and oats. 
•During all this time the calf should be sheltered from the hot sun and 
rain, by providing a shelter to which it may retire, well ventilated, dry 
and clean, and sufficiently dark to keep out green-head and other biting 
flies. In the autumn its rations of grain should be increased, and as grass 
fails the finest meadow hay should be substituted — whatever it will eat 
clean of both. Offer it water occasionally after it is a mouth old, and 
when weaned 6oe that it never lacks for water. 
