different times with the same animal:--

1st week with the dam; or 4 quarts per day, at two meals.

2nd to 4th week, 5 to 6 quarts per day, at two meals.

4th to 6th week, 6 to 7 quarts per day, at two meals.

And the quantity need not, during the ensuing six weeks (after
which it is weaned), exceed a couple of gallons per day. This
implies that the calf is fed upon new milk only, and that no
other feeding liquids are employed. But, in addition to the above,
the calf will, towards the fourth week, begin to eat a little
green hay; and in a week or two later, some sliced roots, or meal,
or finely crushed cake, mixed with hay-chaff; and, if really good,
creditable beasts are wanted--such as will realise L25 a-head from
the butcher when turned two and a half years old--a little cake
or meal in their early days will be found a desirable investment.
In fact, we doubt not but 1 lb. of cake per day to the calf will
make as much flesh as triple the quantity of cake at any period
of after life. As regards meal, if that is given with the chaff,
we prefer oatmeal, or barley-meal, or wheaten flour, but not the
meal of beans or pease. Others may see it differently, but we
believe beans to be too heating for any class of young stock. For
roots, the best we know of is the carrot, grated and mixed with
the chaff, or sliced thin with a knife and given alone. It is also,
of all roots, the one which we find them most fond of, and which
they will most readily take to. As soon as they can eat them
freely, an immediate reduction in the supply of milk may be made.

In most articles it holds good in the end that "the best is the
cheapest." So with the rearing of calves; the best class of food,
or that above referred to, is found to give the greatest ultimate
satisfaction. But practically the question often is, how to rear
good calves with comparatively little new milk, a condition which
circumstances often render almost imperative; for where dairy
produce, in any other form, is the chief object, the calves stand
in a secondary position, and are treated accordingly. But let us
ask whether you cannot rear good stock under such circumstances
also? We believe that this may be, and often is done. We manage to
turn out from twenty-five to thirty calves annually--such as will
pass muster anywhere--and nev