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manuring will go far towards supplying deficiencies and pre- 

 venting exhaustion. 



Judicious management in rotating and maturing crops will 

 relieve the soil by skillful drafts of gaseous nutriment from 

 the atmosphere. The aftermath of dry meadows will be kept 

 sacred from scythe, hoof, or tooth. To tillable land a season's 

 rest in clover will be frequently awarded. 



A corresponding improvement will be visible in the condi- 

 tion, breed, and blood of all domestic animals, whether reared 

 for home use, or market abroad. Color, shape, size, attitude, 

 activity, muscular strength, beauty in proportion, and graceful 

 movement, weight, ' early maturing in taking on fatty matter 

 and fleshy fibres — all these will be severally considered and 

 the respective .properties wanted will be made the basis of 

 judicious selection. 



No gaunt, long-nosed, apron-eared, large-jointed, crooked- 

 back specimen of swine will longer offend the eye in the 

 street, or at two years of age, with a clear live weight of 125 

 pounds, be thrust into a sty, to wallow in filth, and be reduced 

 in six weeks to killing order upon flint corn in the ear. 



Bald-headed, hairy-limbed, light-quartered sheep, with a 

 scanty covering of coarse wool iipou back and sides, will be 

 entirely displaced by Leicesters, Southdowns, Saxons, and 

 Merinos. 



Neat cattle of high breeds and pure blood will range in 

 green pastures, — well fenced, shaded, and watered in summer; 

 and in winter, will no longer shiver over their scanty allowance 

 of refuse fodder, in open yards, or wend their way 200 rods 

 along slippery paths ia search of water, and then, like a 

 Mohammedan at his devotions, be compelled to take it 

 kneeling. 



Horses of approved varieties, by close breeding, keep, and 

 proper training in position, step, gait, and general movement, 

 will become what nature designed them to be, the most actire, 

 useful, and beautiful of all domestic animals. We shall no 



