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A bull fliould be well fed, and kept from coition 

 at lead till the fecond, if not till the third year. 

 His vigour lads only two years. 



In the choice of cows to breed from, fee that 

 they have eight or ten white teeth in their jaw, 

 that the bread be broad, the tail long, the veins 

 of the belly diftinguifhable, the brace of the navel 

 large, a broad forehead, large black eyes, wide nof- 

 trils and ears. 



The feeds edeemed the mod falutary in pro- 

 moting an increafe of milk, are thofe of trefoil, 

 fainfoin, angelica, pimpernel, cummin, and anife. 

 About the walls of houfes, and on the infides of 

 hedges, fow lovage* 



Since the foregoing remarks were written, a 

 work, called Minutes of Agriculture, has come 

 under my notice, and ferves to confirm my fenti- 

 ments of the great benefit that would arife from 

 clearing padure-lands of noxious weeds, and do- 

 ring them with fuch as are falutary and medicinal. 

 The writer of this work fays, that *' on the 29th 

 " of Augud a cow died of the red water, and that 

 " on opening her, the maw was full of half-digeded 

 ** vegetables, although (he had not eaten for many 



days." Again, 



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