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vice is plausible, and I have frequently tried it; and being unwilling to discourage enterprize, I would wish others to make the trial, and find out the ob- Jections at their leisure. For myself, I am fully convinced that an honest middle man, or salesman, can do much better at market for either purchaser or seller than they can do for themselves, and that it is highly for the interest of farmers and improv- ers, torear and encourage a breed of thiskind. As to the generality of the present race of jobbers, I am sorry to be compelled by experience to say, they scorn to concede the palm, for certain accom- plishments, even to the fraternity of the bridle.

I have not room, nor do I stand engaged to say. any thing of cattle-medicine, although not altoge- ther unprepared for the task. A word or two of the best advice on the subject in my power to give, is heartily at the service of the country. The best medicine for all cattle, is prevention; for set- ting aside a few acutecases, the doctoring of nu- merous patients of this kind, is, at best, a tedious and uncertain business. Animals living in a na- tural state, and on simple food, regularly and equally dispensed, would enjoy constant health; their disowWers are generally brought on by our ir- regularity of feeding, and improper treatment: it Is our interest to obviate these causes of disease, in the first instance; but when disease is already in- curred, if timely discovered, it will gradually give way toa course, opposite to.that which produced it, joined to a regimen and diet proper in the case. Inall weak cases, during theswinter-season, particularly, dry and comfortable provender, and good

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