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fed on Indian corn, broken in the same 

 manner as we break beans for horses, mixed 

 with bran, chopped straw, or chaff, clover, 

 or timothy hay, blades, &c. and salt regu- 

 larly given once a week, a large handful to 

 each beast of every kind, whether for fat- 

 tening or not. 



The price of a cow and calf is from 

 twelve to forty dollars : but the general run 

 of cows are sold from eighteen to twenty- 

 six dollars: what are termed fat calves, from 

 four to eight dollars, to kill at six or eight 

 weeks old ; a drape cow from six to sixteen 

 dollars ; a pair of working oxen from 

 seventy to one hundred dollars ; beef from 

 four pence to ten pence per pound ; veal 

 the same. 



There is one gentleman, of the name of 

 Gough, at Perry-Hall, who has procured 

 some imported cattle from near York, in 

 England, something of the Tees-water kind, 

 which he sold very high at the first, -from 

 one hundred to one hundred and twenty 

 dollars for a bull-calf, and seventy to eighty 



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