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quadrupeds, from the unprofitable to their more 
ufeful parts; I fay, after thefe, and the many other 
methods called in for acquiring and diffufing ufeful 
knowledge through almoft every ramification of the 
art, it is matter of ferious regret, as well as for curious 
contemplation, that we are in thefe iflands, at this 
enlightened period, without the prattice of any ge- 
neral definitive means of fecuring food for our nicely- 
felected and juftly-efteemed animals (at all other times 
highly pampered) at leaft for the term of one month 
in almoft every revolving twelve; fo that although 
nothing unexpected or unforefeen fhould happen 
with refpeét to feafon, the effects generally militate 
{trongly againft all our attempts at improvement, 
however coftly, during the other-eleven; and in cafe 
of a little extraordinary feverity therein, they are . 
often difaftrous and fatal to an almoft incalculable 
amount. | 
In your neighbour CrurtTweELv’s paper of the 
prefent day, (May gth) we have the following me- 
lancholy accounts:—‘ The lofs among the fheep, 
“¢ through the feverity of the feafon, has been im- 
* menfely great in various parts of Cumberland and 
*¢ Weftmoreland. Only 30 are ftated to have been 
«¢ faved out of a flock of 300; 300 to have been loft 
*¢ off one farm, containing about 1000; and 500 to 
«* have fuffered out of a flock of 800.” And further 
again, inthe fame, ‘* All the hay and ftraw in moft 
** counties have been nearly confumed, in fupport of 
the 
