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Show THE BLEATING CALF. Sign That It Will Not Make a Good Dairy Animal. Evory dairyman of experience has observed that now and then ho will come to be tho ownor of a calf that will bleat nlmost continuously. When It ents it Is qulot onough and n short tlmo may elapse before It will start in with its uneasy noiso. It Is a restless spirit. It Is exceedingly annoying to us for It would Indlcato under ordinary ordi-nary circumstances thnt the animal lacked either food, water or care. Wo do not proposo to have that condition exist upon Cotoau fnrm. Wo have mado a study of thoso restless crontures and find that unless thoy liavo attention llko that which a trained nurso could glvo, their hoIbo would not be stopped. This bleating with them docs not mean a lack of food, wator or caro, but Is an expression expres-sion of a rostlossncss of tho spirit which dwells within thorn. Wo mnko it a rulo to get rid of such anlmnls as soon as poBslblo. Sometimes we can fatton thorn, moro ofton not. Restlessness Rest-lessness and fattoning do not usually como togothor. Wo always consider that such an animal is a burden to tho farm. If wo can do no bottor, thoy go to tho buyer as a cannor. |