ipo On Cdpsjis and Cutting Strait/- May 



wliich they devoured raw before her very eyes ; then fowlng up 

 the (kin, and 'driving her again before them, to furnifh like 

 ineals, in like manner, at their fubfequent places of reding.' 

 Kow, though I pledge my veracity to the truth of the fa6i: ; and 

 can, indeed, never fufliciently admire the advantages of AbyfTi- 

 nia, in podelTing, thus, automatous provifion, fuperfeding the 

 neceffity of provifion-waggons to attend the march of armies ; 

 yet I mull caution my readers, that the circumfhance, of cows 

 being able to move without the aid of mufcles, I have found to 

 be exclufively peculiar to the animals, or to the climate of Abyf- 

 finia. You can nowhere elfe , 



* Kill half a CGiUy and turn the reft to grafs. * 

 I afiure your readers, that all my diminiflied animals are, of ne- 

 ceffity, lioufe-fed in flails, having flings (Uke horfes on fliip- 

 boarci) to fupport their weight in flecping ; their macerated legs 

 becoming rigid, and ferving only as flationary fupports. More- 

 over, they muR be all flaughtered at home, as they cannot carry 

 themfelves to market — an inconvenience little felt in near vici- 

 nity to market towns, or where there is convenience of water 

 carriage. 



Upon the whole, the conveniences of my Abyffinian pradice, 

 for the proportioning the fize of the animal to its powers of 

 concoction, or to the food that can be afforded it to concoCl, 

 in giving to private families, in country places, the defireable 

 opportunity of prolonging the feafon of frefli meat, by eating 

 half their beaft, while the other is left alive, to ferve upon ano- 

 ther occalion, the expenfive operation of falting being, mean- 

 while, almoft totally fuperfeded — thefe conveniences are, I ap- 

 prehend, too great to be negle61ed, as they are too obvious to 

 be overlooked. I have juft to obferve, that, when fo much as 

 an entire half of a beaft is taken away at once, to fuit family 

 convenience, there is fome danger of an enfuing plethora in the 

 remaining half; a danger that may however be avoided, by fuf- 

 fering the animal to bleed freely in the operation. This leads 

 me to confider the fecond and oppofite fpecies of redundancy ; 

 which I Piiall difcufs, after a manner equally luminous, in fome 

 future communication. Munchausen. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER S MAGAZINE. 



On Capons ; and Inforniaiion rcquefed concerning the Cutting of 



Straw. 



Sir, 



If it be allowed, as ftrongly aflerted, that a capon is pre- 

 ferable to a hen, or to a cock, of whatever age, and that the 



former 



