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aſcertained. By this means error will be detected, and uſeful improvements Ppromoted. I remain,

8IR, Nour obedient and humble ſervant,

Edinburgb, April 30, 1795. DAvID URE.

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No. XII.

To Artbur Toung, E/.

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4 T Trowbridge-Houſe, near Crediton, Devon, in November, an heifer calf was fallen, and attempted to be reared by the ſkim milk, after

ſhort time the calf, as might have been expected, was ſeized with the ſhoot,* and reduced to a ſkeleton; on which I ordered the dairy-maid to boil u about a large table-ſpoonful of potatoe-ffarch in each meal, which brought it to the conſiſtence of middling cream: in a few days the ſymptom of the fhoot diſappeared, and as the calf began to- thrive, the mixture was con- tinued as a diet until the winter(which was not a remarkable mild one) was over, when it took to eating graſs, at ſix months it had caught the calves of the preceding ſpring in point of ſize; at one year old it was far beyond them; and at two years old(on my leaving the country) was ſold for more than any cow I had..

Nours,&c. c. THOMAS WILLIAM STURGEON.

* The Flux.