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size to which its own state of health, its mode of living, and the habits of its kind would raise it. It would appear, that this disposition to fatten, shews itself, in the improved breeds, even before they have attained their full size; whereas, in the coarser kinds, it does not occur till they are somewhat more advanced in life, 2. e.

produce may incur the same neglect during a succession of years, unless their condition be retrieved. This is a thing about which any person may satisfy himself, by marking particularly such rough patches in autumn, and observing what happens against another season.—By the bye, those coarse tufts in pastures, though perhaps dans /a nature, and something picturesque,(if one can use such$ piebald lan-

guage,’) are not merely deformities, spoiling the fair expanse

of lawns or grass lands, but really detrimental. Live stock

turned during summer into fields, where from some neglect or other, such are frequent, will pine over the short and more tender produce, rather than touchthem. They can be over- eome by repeatedly sweeping them down in moist weather, when the growth stands best to the sithe; and some young, voracious cattle might be employed to lick up what ismown, In dewy mornings, as observed by Mr. Marshall, cattle, on rising from their lairs, eat, of their own accord, such stale herbage when cut down, befcre the growing grass, which

they prefer at other times.

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