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friſky, ſince they have been fed upon the burnet, which is carried to them, ſeveral times a day, upon a bare common.

Burnet 1s not an unplealant ſilad, the flavour is aromatic and aſtringent, and the effeCt'*of the herb warming and nutritious to the animal’ body. The leaves are indented, and not unlike parſley. It has a tap-root, ſimilar to lucern, or ſaintfoin, whence iſſue a number of ſtems, bearing leaves upon them in a feather form. It is a plea‘ant crop of herbage to look at. Standing thin, and in the drill form, is plain!y the beſt adapted to this plant; a method I ſhall immediately purſue,; being determined, by the convenience my litile crop of this year has afforded mez to cultivaie as many acres as I can find’ the materials to prepare, T can venture ſtrongly to recommend it to thoſe who live upon a dry light fil, as I have no doubt but it would, if drilled, produce a large and valuable bulk, either green or dry; and it has the additional recommeidacion, when arrived at perfection, that it defizs the frofts-in winter; and, if in hay, is exceedingly comforting and nouriſhing to cattle, in the ſevere ſeaſon.

May 9th, 1800. EL

TEE PRE PE SIEBIE za2c ON H DRO PHOBLA:

BY DR. VANDER-BORCK, To the Editor of the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine.

SRS OME firange relations which I have heard during my re- S ſidence in. this country, and ſeveral fatal accidents which I have been ſo unfortunate as to witneſs, have induced me to requeſt a corner of your extremely uſeful and philoſophical publication, for a few obſervations on that moſt dreadful of all morbid viſita= tions, hydrophobia, or canine madnefs.

It was well demanded by a celebrated wiiter of your country, How can you expe that men will take advice, who will not even take warning. Although an age has paſled ſince this queſ- tion was aſked, and mankind, during ſuch a period, may be ſup- poſed to have obtajned a large ſhare of additional experience, yet the queſtion ſcems, even now, to have loſt nothing of its original force and applicability. Men are juft as careleſs as ever on the ſubje of dogs, in every country, keeping an enormous number of uſeleſs ones,‘in a ſtarving, diſeaſed, and dangerous fate, or in conſtant habits of fatneſs and luxurious indolence, equally dan- gerous to the health of the animals; taking no precautions, uſing no means of prevention. againſt the threatened approach of a ſcourge, which ever has, probably, ever will, defy all remedy, and which is the conſummation of ail human calamity!

The prejudices and follies of certain phyſicians, yet mén of éminence and ability in the other branches of their„rofeſlion, have

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