| Show HINTS ON RAISING CALVES calves are raised kaied for veal orto or to become milk producers or to bear the yoke or still unbroken to be be us used 1 ed as beef where the production of veal is more profitable it is usually bapst best to give each good cow two calves tossed to feed ind and let them run with he hei rj and have all the milk they will wili draw iu in winter and nd earl eari early y spring r i ng this cannot be done and the calp calves v e s in must be brought to the cow three times a day for the first week or fortnight and ta twice ide a day after that if the calves leave any milk the cow should be thoroughly stripped each t time me this plan saves much labor in milking and so soon as one pair of calves has been sold to the butcher another pair may take their places cows will usually own any calves given to them after one or two nill nili milking king times and they may then be left to run together in the pasture the calves should be nearly of an age no cow that will not lot give plenty ty of milk for two calves ought to be kept ept for anything but beef and itis an excellent plan to make the short cows nurses in this way the calves whim which are to be raised either for beef or breeding should have all the milk after they are six or nine weeks old where butter is made madd and the milk cain can not be spared to the talf calf the plan of the correspondent of the agriculturist may be followed he writes I 1 shortly after the calf is dropped take it from the cow and put it in a dry well littered stable part of each day it should be allowed tile the range of some adjoining yard for exercise by separating cow and calf thus ihus early the former is sooner weaned from her offspring find the latter learns to drink more easily than if allowed to suck for several days milk the cow at once and feed the calf all it will drink to teach it to drink give it your forefinger fore finger with the back of the hand immersed in a pail of milk a few trials will sum suf suffice mlee flee during the third week give about one quarter of skimmed milk in the fourth week one half and after the sixth week let lot it be all skimmed but sweet and warm as newly drawn milk after two months weaning from milk should be bein begin in feed a little indian meal wet up il in milk or water give once a day dayl a little soft sweet ha hay he will soon learn to nibble hibble it aam adint of oats per day may may early darly be given riven soon he will learn treat grass brass and then in good pasture will take talie care of himself the of removing removing the calf from the dam we do not commend though it asvery is very generally generalli practiced after the labors and trials are over thelow ought to haythe have the satisfaction of suckling her offspring at least so long as it is necessary for the calf to have nothing but pure milk the cow will often worry and pine if the calf i as s taken away too soon and a ten tendency deney to garget or caked bag is often the result moreover if the tho calf be fastened in a calf pen or elsewhere ani and allowed to go to the cow three times a day entire separation will be much more easily borne bjorne after a few days where the sola sol soi and it is best to wean the fhe calf from the pw cow a as speedily as possible it may mad be removed feva fela em ove oVed d after ajo a few V houi hours S meanwhile ale tife the colv cow eow will ha have ham M licked it autt antl to her hearts content giving the little ono one notion of matters and things about it setting its blood in circulation and getting it well on its ita feet the calf wili will have taken its first meal and butted down the bag as they say the first milk s should guld guid never be withheld from the calf calfi calfy utterly unfit for human food it is in its action and cleans out the bowels of the calf as no medicine can Ser serious ibus results follow follows if this does not take place in bowels do not move a doseff dose of two ounces of 0 f castor oil with vi th a teaspoonful of ginger ought to be administered the removal of the dark gummy frescas with which the tho bowels of a newly born bora calf are more or gr less filled is is very important after the calf is removed it is kept away from the cow except at meal times three times a day after about the third or fourth day it may well be taught to drini drink from frona a pail the milk must be freshly drawn at first the next day part skimmed may be used and by the time it is a week old it may be fed on skimmed milk altogether then bein deain be in to add 4 a little thin gruel being careful to check any a 11 y tendency to scouring v by scalding tart bah of the tile milk with nine fine flour bran added to the gruel is loosening fine wheat flour and boiled milk have the opposite tendency so that with careful watching a calf may be easily set right without withof it physic where calves run with the cow and can nibble grass a little they seldom have any ailments after a calf is three weeks old and often earlier the milk may be withheld altogether and a tea made of clove clover rhay hay used to mix with the gruel in ih this way a calf may be fatted batted for the butcher orr or raised alsed successfully but it ift will usually be more economical to feed feird milk unless it is worth more than 2 0 cents per quart JA american merican agriculturalists agriculturalist HOW CAN FARMING BE MORE diore AT the following are some of the scrap scraps sand and shreds drawn at various times tile the discussions of a farmers is club 1 by less hard work farmers farmer s often undertake more than they can do well and consequently work too early and too late 2 by mor more system s the farmers should have time to be bein begin in und and stop labor they should pd put more moro mind and machinery into their work they should theorize as well as practice and let both go together farming is healthy moral and respectable in the long run it may be made profitable the farmer should keep good stock and out of bf dept debt debb is the best place to begin and end life and hence so many in lithe tithe the cities eltis and professional li life ilfe fe covet a rural biral home 3 by taking care of health farmers have a healthy variety of too often neglect clean linen inen omit bathing eat irregularly and hurriedly sleep in ill ventilated apartments and expose themselves to cold ninth tenths of the human ma u diseases arise from colds or intemperance frequent bathing is profitable so is fresh air deliberation at the dinner table and rest after meal 4 by adorning the home nothing r is lost by a pleasant home books papers pictures music and reading should all be brou brought glit to tp bear upon the indoor in door family entertainment and neatness comfort order shrubbery flowers and fruit should harmonize without home should be a sanctuary so happy and holy lathat that children will love it women delight in it manhood crave it and old age enjoy it there would be less deer dek eions of old oid homesteads if pains we were re taken to make them more agreda agreeable ae ease order health and beauty are arear c com eom m pa datable with farm life and rd in ed to gawith go with it I 1 s |
