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whether on clay or sand, at plough or cart. Tam aware of no county, Norfolk excepted, where their pace at plough is too quick for the best Devons.

Mr. Middleton would willingly revive the pri- mitive and laudable custom: of eating horse-flesh; some years ago, I knew a fair countrywoman of his, who, being above all narrow prejudices, actu- ally put this speculation in practice, and never fail- ed to beg five or six pounds of the prime of the flesh, from every horse killed at a neighbouring dog-kennel. I observed no other particular effect it had upon her, but that of imparting to her breath an odour equally savoury and pleasant with that of her mess-mates. The girl was under twenty years OF age.

The ace of Neat Cattle is commonly judged of, by the number of rings or circular marks upon the horns, the first of which, however, at the base, does not appear until, the third year, after which, every year brings an additional ring: these, the cow-job- bers,(one in twenty of whom I hope may be an honest man), take especial care to rasp, and scrape out, in an aged beast. The ealves-teeth begin to drop at two years old turned, when the animal gets two new teeth, and two additional every year, until five years old, when the mouth is full; but the two corner, or mark-teeth,'are not perfectly up until SIX.

The castration, male or female, of these, and sndeed, of all our domestic animals, horses except- ed, is performed early; of calves at ten or fourteen days old.

The norns of calves, on the authority of a book,

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