The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-03-20
Rear Your HCicss Calves.

; Rear Your Eei.er ta4VeS.
Cool COWS in the n-islb,rhood Of Bnston
dnd at the Brighton and CLmbridso mar
k'ts have for moro than year past been
brinsins frum tlir,y.fye to GGty dIlhrS, and
tho supply, ut thc'o prices, has scarcely
b,cn equal to the demand. Cows that are
OF large sizc, ana that sivu an extraordinary
iqumIity or milk through Large portion o.
the year, sell ut prizes varying from sixty.
iiyc to one hundred dbl ars! GOld looking
two-ycIr old heirtrs. IN calf, Oi almost an.
breed, sell quickly at from thirty to forty
dollars, and If Of somc particular bcecd and
og Supposed merit, frcqucull command ff
~ dollars. Milk is in demand, and will
continue To BE- 80, and ought tn h, supplied
To the cities by those living ncar thcm in
Abundance and Of the bcs; quality.
We arr aware that even with thosc who
can winter from ten 10 forty head Of cattle
it is oltcn fuurd inconvcnient 10 rear the
calves and produce their own cows. The
calves require constant aud rIrelLl attention,
and wlca old ,nJush to feed themselves,
Ps.,urIso is dgIci,n;. But under Ehe cir.
.cymsL,uc,s we have men i,uCd, VIC thIuk
"a, tim, has come when most Of The GARNER,
OF New Eng and can raise at least u portion
at Ihc,r heller calves alta profit. By "a ju.
diyiJus selection of thc b~t, both IN physi
cal appearances, and Of the mos, approved
b.1oJ, and wiki careful icydns, they will
SIJn BE- likely to gtt u stoc., ol COWS snrpIss
ius any that have yet grAz,d our New Eng
lud pastures.
Many persons hesitate to rear che clli he
cause they cannot sp,rc the milk for it, and
hscauSc they are not acquainted with my
mod, OF rsirIn. without using most OI thc
milk WHile We confess our b,lief that the
cali will grow mure thrritily. and du bst'r,
generally, when allowed to take in his own
way, the iuOd which nature has provided inr
\ it. We alsJ b,licyn :. substitute may be pro-
Sid,l. in the main, Which will answer very
we'll, If accompanied with careful attention
on our own part.
The calf sholld b, allowed to suck on
week, bpth ou hls own account, and that o!
I the CIV. Ancr this take two ur thrce quar- :
Of milk just drawn lrom thc COW into which
las re tlle baud, aud the head OF the cill,aud
pllc, uac or twu fingers in the m1ula.-
When this Las bceu lrIc;itCl few days,
take sweet clover aud timothy hay, cut il,
and put two or ihrso quarts into II ke,uc
with water and hrlns iI u n, bp,lin; p,nt
then allow u To SAX or siuu,er fir mo
ur thrrU hours, bat noe hot. At the next
Iimc of feeding tie calf mix II li,Il, Of iii,
,Nret hay tea with its milk, and SrIduall,
incrJgls, the quantity thc m,l<-
Unlil the calf will take il Us readily n il
ever dill the milk alone. After q while u
title meal Of corn. oats, b riley or back
wheat may b, added; and when the calf Is
disposed 10 eat, Guc rct-,op hay or sweet,
clover, or oats wet listIc over nIsh', wall
h, particularly acceptable.
~ soon ~ the shnrt tender :riss appcars
in the spring one or Two calves my b' ,i,I
oaS ar the bnildlnss, on Land that would
n,herwi,c be ol ltI profit, aud by ocCaSiun
ally Changing their POSITION, and lcydiny
ihvn li,lls beside, they may b, carried
thrIush the summer, with an expense ~
Jria,uS that almost any one may incur it /;
and beside, that, they will soon b'cumc.
great pets Of the family. The second year.
,f JstunIgu is short at hon,, thy may b.
-,nI away.
By this course, in three or four year.
MASSACHUSETTS,, at least may be stocked wish
Ihc b.sI COWS q has ever had, and prOduc-
al upon her own s,il. The small farmer
, may adopt thi, mothod, aud very so1n,
without really iaeling that hc has lncurrc,l
, much rxpcnsc, Gnd himself in l,'ssyssion ul
several COWS whose profitable qualities VII.
| scarcely admit ol doubt, aud WHOSE age,
: he will know. We tnd thvst opiuluns freo
:. iy cxpresscd 10y some or our bssI Farmers,
4 and particularly by thoss engaged H. pro-
duvins milk.
4 NJrE We fnd the above dating abSs,
wiGhOu, credit IL Is applicable To Maine,
nO loss than Massachusetts,. and our r,,.iris
can pcrhaps learn something to thv,r ..d.
vantage lrOm its pe. usll.-MaHs Earmsr.