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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
Sometimes washing the parts with spin t-and-water will an¬ 
swer the same purpose. 
REARING OF CALVES. 
Some cows will disown their progeny soon after birth ; to 
prevent this, let a little salt be thrown over the back of the 
calf, and the mother will speedily take to licking it, and 
afterwards allow it to suck her. 
About an hour after birth, we would recommend that the 
calf should be given about a pint of lukewarm oatmeal- 
gruel, which is better than the first milk of the cow. And 
when it is designed to wean calves, for the sake of the cow’s 
milk, the operation is commenced when they are about a 
fortnight old, in which cases the best substitute for the milk 
is that recommended by the late Duke of Northumberland, 
who was a zealous agriculturist. The following is the mode 
of preparing it:—Take one gallon of skimmed-milk, and 
to about a pint of it, add a tablespoonfull of treacle, or 
golden syrup, and after mixing them well, take an ounce of 
lintseed-oil cake, finely beaten down, and strew it slowly 
into the milk, stirring it all the while with a spoon, until it 
is thoroughly incorporated ; and when it is so, add to it the 
other portion of milk, and place it on the fire until it is the 
warmth of new milk, when it may be given to the calf. 
Sometimes water is substituted for milk ; when that is the 
case, let four ounces of lintseed-meal be well boiled in a 
gallon of water, and afterwards add half-a-pound of treacle, 
which must be added when the lintseed-meal has been 
slowly and thoroughly boiled. 
To secure health and strength to the calves, the surest plan 
is to allow them to continue with their dam, and be suckled 
by her, until they have acquired sufficient energy to pro¬ 
vide for themselves. Therefore, they should be permitted 
