IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



market for the carcass ; for, to purchase joints 

 of meat, loaded with the taxes of the butcher's 

 shop, of his bit of pasture, with the wages of 

 his servants, the expense of his horses, the 

 expense of keeping his family (one branch of which 

 absolutely demands both gig and tea), and with 

 your due share of his bad debts, to say nothing 

 of his profits, though as small as conscience to- 

 wards his family will permit; to do this, if you have 

 a large family to provide for, and have no means 

 of coming money, whether of paper or of metal, 

 is to chalk out for yourself a line, direct and 

 smooth, leading from your house to the King's 

 Bench ; more especially, if you expose yourself to 

 the numerous and unintentional mistakes which 

 generally arise from booking the joints. Unable 

 to consume a whole carcass, the nearer you come 

 to it the better. The public market is the place 

 to buy meat at; and, if you be too feel)le to 

 carry it home yourself, a horse, or a pair of 

 shoulders, is never very difficult to obtain. 



150. Oxen and Cow Feeding. I have 

 before given an account of the manner in which 

 they feed oxen with ears of corn in America. 

 If you fat oxen at manger, you must feed either 

 with ears or you must grind the corn into meal ; 

 for, if they have it in shelled corn, they ruminate 

 and digest only a part of it. I have seen a score 

 of oxen together in a yard^ having a manger 



