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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 15, 15 October 1874, Page 4

How to Hbau Calves without Milk. — The following extract is from the * Aberdeen Journal': — At the ordinary held at Congelton on a recent fair day, Mr Taylor, tbe landlord of the Lion and Swan Inn, explained to the com pany, who were principally farmers, a very economical method, as adopted by himself, of rearing- calves without milk. Subjoined is Mr Taylor's plan of operation: — Soon after a cow calves, some oatmeal is scalded, mixed with common brown sugar, and made into balls about the size of a hen's e^, one or two of the balls bping given three times a day to the calfi which sucks them and swallows them greedily. After the first three days the calf is fed by the hand, and in small quantities, with chopped hay, mixed with bean or barley meal, scalded. The calf, after a few trials, eats the mixture voraciously. After the first three days one quart of thick meal gruel is given to each calf. The young stock, for which Mr Taylor obtains remarkably good prices, sell better than those fed in the old way, and no noise or bleating is heard among them. They are free from sickness and swelling. They grow rapidly, and are soon turned out to grass. Mr Taylor states that he had reared twelve calves each year for the last three years in this manner, thus effecting a large saving in milk, which, as he had two or three cows only, was all required for the use of his hotel, whilst the plan only involved him in a little extra trouble for the first few days.

A potato-grower says he was educated to plant three or four good-sized tubers in a hill ; bur, much against his judgment, he was finally induced to cut the seed, and for seven years past has been cutting closer and closer each season, until now he cuts as near as possible to the single eyes, and * plants in rows three feet apart and ten or twelve inches in the row. His success has been greater since he adopted this plan. Each spring be sells from, half an acre of land 100 bushels of surplus, having used liberally in his family during winter, and reserved enouarh for seed. He prefers Early Rose, and his soil and his tillage are excellent. Another experimenter records, in the ' American Rural Home,' that he placed large and small potatoes in juxtaposition in the same row, and in adjoining rows, and found that, when planting was followed by moist and favorable weather, there was but little difference in results j but, when a drought followed, the large potatoes took the lead, and held it through the season, yielding much larger crops,