. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. 8i Calcareous. CALCAREOUS. A term applied to soils containing a large proportion of lime. CALF-FATTENING. There is little art in this, beyond allowing the young bantling to drain its mother of her milk twice a day, and keeping it diy-bedded, and tied up short, so as to be unable to take exercise. A good cow ought to fatten her calf in six we
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. 8i Calcareous. CALCAREOUS. A term applied to soils containing a large proportion of lime. CALF-FATTENING. There is little art in this, beyond allowing the young bantling to drain its mother of her milk twice a day, and keeping it diy-bedded, and tied up short, so as to be unable to take exercise. A good cow ought to fatten her calf in six weeks, so as to be worth, for veal, from 50s. to 60s. Some endeavour to hasten the fattening process by min- gling a little !;in w ith wheat-Hour, and making up small dough balls, which they force the calf to devour. Call-ducks. Thorley's condiment, stated to be in- valuable in calf-rearing. The Scotch farmers are great economists in the matter, and by adding water to form a highly nutritious gruel, make a little milk go a long way. As soon as tlie young animal will nibble anything, a little pollard and bean-meal and Thor- ley's condiment should be mixed toge- ther and placed in its trough, and a whisp of tiie sweetest hay tied up be- fore it. When old May-day arrives, the calves are weaned and sent into the meadows, but it is perhaps better management to keep them in stalls and yards the entire summer, feeding on vetches, clover, and other green food cut in the fields and broutiht to CALF-REARING. This is quite an art in itself, as some dairy-fanners, by good management, rear 50 per cent, more calves from a 40- or 50-cow dairy than others, yet make quite as much butter. After the first fortnight the young calves no longer require raw milk, antl the .skim- milk is set apart for them. To this should be added a mucilage made from boiled linseed or linseed-meal and CALL-DUCKS. These are domesticated for a particu- lar purpose, to be used in decoy ponds, to entice wild ducks
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