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Show i Tha Ntw-Uorn Calf. tt Is shsmsfal to let a young ealt flounder on a ellppery Door for hours, trying to stand up and get Its supper. Throw no salt, no nothing, on the calf; kp It elasn, that's what iie mother would request It she could talk. Start tb milk without delay from every teat An obstruction will milk out now that won't tomorrow morning Urlng on that "mess" thinned to a gruel-made gruel-made fully blood-warm and milk thre or four quarts of milk from her Into It, and see her suck It down. It helps to All the great vacuum and keeps awsy the chills. Bee that th calf baa found the ration, (live the g cow soma nlc bay now, and It may H be best to put a blanket on her, and then. If you need sleep, go to bed and sleep like a Christian, sas a contributor contribu-tor to Home, Field and Forum. I may have some credit marka at the day of Judgment for moro than COO cows that I hava lost sleep over to make sura they did not suffer need-leuly need-leuly when bearing young. If In good health, and fed and cared for right, not on cow In 100 will fall to clean within alx houra. If one doea fall, ro-move ro-move It without delay. My dairyman's father bad all of his bpys do the Job before they were 21 years. With his fitly cows, the caie of n retention ot the afterbirth did not happen mora than two or threo times a year. 1 wall remember my first attempt. It seemed that I would kill tbo cow, but 1 did not, and 1 never have even Injured ono alnco. I don't do It for my neighbors neigh-bors any more. I Just order them to roll up tbolr sleeves and go to bull- neii. Don't Increase the feed ot a cow for, say, nine days after she calves. Treat her a groat deal as though she was human. A cow can be petted and bruihed and rubbed at that time. |