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away she trampled with them at her heels to 

 the place on the west side of the barn. There 

 was so little wind, that I could not tell which 

 way it blew, till 1 took up some leaves, and 

 tossed them in the air. I then found, that it 

 came from the precise point which her nose 

 had settled at. And thus was I convinced, 

 that she had come out to ascertain which way 

 the wind came, and, finding it likely to make 

 her young ones cold in the night, she had gone 

 and called them up, though it was nearly dark, 

 and taken them off to a more comfortable 

 birth. Was this an instinctive, or was it a 

 reasoning proceeding? At any rate, let us 

 not treat such animals as if they were stocks 

 and stones. 



309. POULTRY. I merely mean to observe, 

 as to poultry, that they must be kept away 

 from turnips and cabbages, especially in the 

 early part of the growth of these plants. 

 When turnips are an inch or two high a good 

 large flock ^f turkeys will destroy an acre in 

 half a day, in four feet rows. Ducks and 

 geese will do the same. Fowls will do great 

 mischief. If these things cannot be kept out 

 of the field, the crop must be abandoned, or 

 the poultry killed. It is true, indeed, that it 

 is only near the house that poultry plague 



