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Cast bye apply tos chusing the latter, I got myself laughed at, and in— patient a few days, the cow, rearing herself up suddenly, thing wit fell backward, and instantly died. She had been at dry meat. All accidents of this kind arise from de- the Anna fect of precaution. One ounce of fine een| anion, 0 aloes, in pbellendadini startin Healy ee: Oe Nectatin complaint, would, with little doubt, have prencaal the life of this cow; an out-of-the-way, whimsical, ‘- it nonsensical irregularity, of which, rather than be neither guilty, the sage owner would doubtless have pa- bn he tiently suffered the loss of hz If his dairy. t In COW by timely In a COM nel ini ON SHEEP MKS IF mashes The EWE may produce young at eighteen months old, and at that age, the RAM, or TUP, 1S ant Con: capable of generation; but with improved stock, it 3p, With: is supposed early enough, if the ewe bring produce 0 be re at the end of the second year. Sheep go with young re occa twenty weeks, and in warm climates, produce twice oplectic a year; the same effect might be obtained im this 1 about country, with several species at least, by the help of tone, I high keep, and great attention, were the measure everal atall desirable, which, for very obvious reasons, it se were, surely 1s not: they have generally one or two lambs n of the at a births but certain species almost invariably mation of produce two, and accidentally three, and even five twa. It is curious, that our largest breed, the TEES-w- ah TER, of the/North, should be the most prolific, ge- ‘the bl nerally bringing two lambs, and occasionally four pri or five. Dorsets commonly yean twins; the Ler- CESTERS chusllg, “= scape ae tn or a

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