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the usual symptoms of heaves— has not had a cough that woukl be 

 noticed, drives well, and breathes without the least difficulty." Well 

 cured corn-stalks, cut before frost-bitten, are good fodder, and horses, 

 colts, cows, or sheep, will do about as well on them as on hay. Horses 

 at all affected with the heaves will do better when fed upon them 

 than upon clover hay. A great many horse owners have communi- 

 cated facts to different agricultural papers, going to show that chop- 

 ped straw, wet, or good timothy hay, cut, and wet, would improve 

 the health of a heavey horse. Dusty hay, musty oats, exposure to 

 changes of weather, always increase the cough and difficult breathing 

 which constitutes the heaves. In the way of medicines, a great many 

 have been proposed, but we have little faith in any of them, unless 

 accompanied with care in feeding and diet, as well as overwork and 

 exposure. 



3Kiiiiiigrnrntt nf CanuxuB, 



With the humane purpose of checking the " bird-murders " so fre- 

 quently committed by those ignorant of the physiology and hygiene 

 of our common and beautiful domestic songster, the Canary, we^take 

 occasion to insert the following instructions in regard to the food 

 and management of Canaries. 



The plumage, pretty form and docility; the charming familiarity 

 which disposes it to nestle without fear or reserve beside us ; and 

 above all, its melodious song, have long introduced the canary to all 

 classes of society. 



Buffon, speaking of this beautiful universal favorite says: ''If 

 the nightingale is the chantress of the woods, the canary is the mu, 

 sician of the chamber; the first, owes all to nature, the second some- 

 thing to art. With less strength of organ, less compass of voice and 

 less variety of note, the canary has a better ear, greater facility of 

 imitation, and a more retentive memory; and as the difference of o-en- 

 lus, especially among the lower animals, depends in a great measure 

 on the perfection of their senses, the canary, whose organ of heariro- 

 IS more susceptible of receiving and retaining foreign impressions^ 

 becomes more social, tame and familiar, is capable of gratitude and 

 even attachment; its carresses are endearing, its little humors inno 

 cent and its anger neither hurts nor offends. Its education is easy 



