School: Colehill (C.), Mullingar (roll number 14673)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Kathleen Morris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)get more milk. A muzzle made of sallies or an old porringer with holes punctured in the bottom should be kept on the calf night and day so as to keep him from picking up scraps of hay or straw. After he is three weeks old it can be taken off. When he comes to five or six weeks old buttermilk can be added to the new milk. He thrives better on this mixture. After he is five or six months old he can get a change of linseed gruel or oaten stirabout or better still wheaten gruel. People do say calves fed on oaten stirabout are subject to black leg. This is a deadly disease and when it sets in the calf is lost. Calves should be handled until they are eight months old; then they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary J. Mc Guire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Guire
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnacreevy, Co. Longford
