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Domestic News
August 13, 1804
Jenks' Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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Agricultural tips from Sir John Sinclair's essay include a recipe for hay tea to cheaply rear calves, saving milk, and rubbing tar on cattle horns and skin in winter to preserve health and prevent diseases.
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In the appendix to Sir John Sinclair's essay regarding cattle, we find the following receipt for making hay tea. Take about one pound of red clover hay, well got in, and six quarts of clear spring water, boil them together till the water is reduced to four quarts, then take out the hay, and mix a pound of barley, oat or bean meal, among a little water; put it into the pot or cauldron, while it is boiling, and keep it constantly stirring until it is thickened. Let it cool, then give it the calf, adding as much whey as will make a sufficient meal. This is a cheap way of rearing calves, and the valuable article of milk may be saved for other purposes. When cattle are kept out in winter, it is recommended as a useful practice to rub some tar at the foot of the horn and the skin, and it is said contributes to preserve the health of the animal, and to keep it free from various diseases to which it might otherwise be liable. ~Lon. Gent. Mag.
In the appendix to Sir John Sinclair's essay regarding cattle, we find the following receipt for making hay tea. Take about one pound of red clover hay, well got in, and six quarts of clear spring water, boil them together till the water is reduced to four quarts, then take out the hay, and mix a pound of barley, oat or bean meal, among a little water; put it into the pot or cauldron, while it is boiling, and keep it constantly stirring until it is thickened. Let it cool, then give it the calf, adding as much whey as will make a sufficient meal. This is a cheap way of rearing calves, and the valuable article of milk may be saved for other purposes. When cattle are kept out in winter, it is recommended as a useful practice to rub some tar at the foot of the horn and the skin, and it is said contributes to preserve the health of the animal, and to keep it free from various diseases to which it might otherwise be liable. ~Lon. Gent. Mag.
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Agriculture
What keywords are associated?
Hay Tea
Calf Rearing
Cattle Health
Winter Care
Tar Rubbing
What entities or persons were involved?
Sir John Sinclair
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Key Persons
Sir John Sinclair
Outcome
cheap rearing of calves saving milk; preserves cattle health and prevents diseases.
Event Details
Receipt for hay tea: one pound red clover hay boiled with six quarts spring water to four quarts, add pound barley/oat/bean meal, thicken, cool, feed to calf with whey. Rub tar at foot of horn and skin for winter cattle.