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an aromatic is wanted. The vegetable class of tonics are, in their 

 nature, adapted to the constitutions of all ruminant animals. 



The preceding views contain some of the leading general princi- 

 ples of the nature and cure of inflammatory diseases. More might 

 be said, but it is thought best to leave the subject here for the pres- 

 ent. The great object has been to put the farmer in possession of a 

 few established points, that they may supply the place of the irra- 

 tional and empirical modes of practice which have hitlierto exclu- 

 sively prevailed in this country. 



Many of the articles in use by the cow doctor, are not only inert, 

 but filthy in the extreme. Some prescriptions recommend them- 

 selves to the farmer because they contain a host of articles ; it is 

 therefore thought that some one of them, or all taken together, must 

 certainly cure. But let it be remembered, the more simple the pre- 

 scription, the better. 



' The varieties of cattle in New England are evidently numerous. 

 The red cattle bear the marks of the Devonshire breed, and proba- 

 blv differ as little from them as possible, under the climate and mode 

 of treatment they have met with. It is not supposed that any are of a 

 pure blood, except those recently imported. Where care has been 

 taken of young stock, i.e., the ordinary care of a good husbandman, 

 it is believed that the cattle in this state have as much power and as 

 much speed at the plough, as any in the world, even as the best of 

 the Devonshire in their own country. It remains to be shown by 

 experiment, how much the present race may be improved by extra 

 care, or what advantages are to accrue from crossing with the best 

 English stocks. It is the opinion of the writer, that the most feasible 

 course for the New England farmer, is to improve the present mixed 

 race. This race is inured to the climate, is not very deficient in 

 good points, attains a good size ; the males are good workers, and 

 the females not deficient in milk. They are a race, like the New 

 England people, who, though descended from the English, retain but 

 few of their characteristics, and having acquired some new ones, are, 

 on the whole, not inferior to the original stock. A fine field is 

 opened to the husbandman, for the improvement of the stock now on 

 his farm, not by expensive, uncertain importation of cattle from a cli- 

 mate essentially different from ours, but by selecting the best of his 



