Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-11-30
The Care of Calves.

"A COIIcopOuCtut VI the NOTLnWoSt-
ern FARMER gives the following as his
experience in raising calves: Take the
calf from the mother at two or three
days old. Learn it to drink milk.
Skim milk is best, if not soured, as it
makes bone more rapidly. 1t should
have the natural warmth Of the cows
milk when drawn. Give two quarts in
the morning, one at noon and two at
| night, the first two weeks. Increase
the feed as the calf gets older, as your
judgement dictates. At ten weeks old
he can stand eight quarts at a meal, if
he can get it, and will grow proportion
ally. Should he scour, which he will,
if not fed regularly, or the feed is too
hot or too cold, or the milk was sour
or the calf was not healthy from the
start, give him pint of hay tea after
every meal until cured. If it is spring
calf, keep him in the barn until the
middle Of September. The hot sun of
summer months is detrimental to
calves. See that his bed is cleaned
every day; and use swamp hay or saw
dust. Have box of wheat bran where
he can lap it from the commencement;
also fresh water. He will soon learn
to use these; also wisp of course hay.
Do not feed corn meal the first year,
and always feed the milk clear, and
after nine weeks you need not heat it.,
and it is not absolutely necessary to
feed it after that age if not convenient,
but feed shorts until at least six months
old. Veal cal es should have all the
milk they can take until at least six
months old. After they make bone and
the outlets lose their fine flavor, it is
no longer veal in its true sense. In
conclusion, let me say, commence to
train calves the FIRST week; give them a
name, and they will learn it: teach
them to lead, aud all you wish them to
know; and they will not forget it.
CINCINNATI has been undergoing q
terrible scourge OF smallpox during
the past three months, but owing to q
systematic effort on the part of the
authorities to suppress the facts the
true extent of the disease has not hither-
to been made public. 1t is now an
nounced that since Aug. "a there have
been in Cincinnati upwards of 1000
cases and 500 deaths from small-p box,
and it is expected that with the advent
of cold weather the diseases will be-
come epidemic.
The curious controversy between two
men by the name of William H. Ken
nedy, as to which was elected coroner
of New York, still continues. 1t turns
out that both were candidates before
the convention, and that each expected
the nomination. One is an undertaken,
and the other saloon-keeper. On the
doctrine of probabilities, we should in
cline to say that the latter was the per-
son intended to be no.ored by the
democratic convention.
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Among the congratulatory messages
received by Governor-elect Butler, Of
Massachusetts, was one from some of
his one-time foemen in Memphis,
Tenn, worked in this wise: General
B. F. Butler: Glory to God in the high
est! We don't believe, now, that you
stole any spoons at all! But If you did,
keep 'em We wouldn't have you to
trouble yourself about returning them;
not for anything in the world
Miss Emma Rogers, % years old, re-
siding near Washington, Pa, who had
been cripple for years, is reported to
to have been miraculously cured by