The horse and other live stock . will prefer to judgeof the peculiar characteristics of the animal itself. This willoften save the great and useless outlay which has sometimesbeen incurred in raising calves for dairy purposes, which amore careful examination would have rejected as method of judging stock which has been recommendedin the previous pages is of practical utility here, and it issafer to rely upon it to some extent, jiarticularly when otherappearances concur, than to go on blindly. The milk-mirroron the calf is, indeed, small, but no smaller in proportion toits size
The horse and other live stock . will prefer to judgeof the peculiar characteristics of the animal itself. This willoften save the great and useless outlay which has sometimesbeen incurred in raising calves for dairy purposes, which amore careful examination would have rejected as method of judging stock which has been recommendedin the previous pages is of practical utility here, and it issafer to rely upon it to some extent, jiarticularly when otherappearances concur, than to go on blindly. The milk-mirroron the calf is, indeed, small, but no smaller in proportion toits size than that of the cow; while its shape and form cangenerally be distinctly seen, particularly at the end of ten or twelve weeks.^^ The developmentof the udder, andother peculiari-ties, will give~I^^ some indication^^ of the future ca-^^^ pacities of theanimal, and theseshould be care-fully studied. Ifwe except themanure of young stock, the calf is the first product of thecow, and as such demands our attention, whether it is to be. MATERNAL AFFECTION. THE BAISING OF CALYES. 169 raised or hurried off to tlie shambles. The practice adoptedin raising calves differs widely in different sections of th»country, being governed very much by local circumstances,as the vicinity of a milk-market, the value of milk for thedairy, the object of breeding, whether mainly for beef, forwork, or for the dairy, etc. ; but, in general, it may be said,that, within the range of thirty or forty miles of good veal-markets, which large towns fui-nish, comparatively few areraised at all. Most of them are fattened and sold at agesvarying from thi«ee to eight or ten weeks ; and in milk-dairiesstill nearer large towns and cities they are often hurried offat one or two days, or, at most, a week old. In both ofthese cases, as long as the calf is kept it is generally allowedto suck the cow, and, as the treatment is very simple, thereis nothing which particularly calls for remark, unless it be tocondemn the pra
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