FARMER'S ASSISTANT, 



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KILLING OP BEASTS. But little need be said on this 

 subject, as butchering is only to be learned by practice. 

 But the cruel manner in which butchering is often per- 

 formed is deserving of some animadversion. The killing 

 of beasts for our use is lawful ; but surely it is not so to 

 torture them. He who, in the act of taking the life of an 

 unoffending creature, deals not the stroke of death with 

 mercy, must either have become callous from inveterate 

 habit, or in feeling must be of little higher grade than the 

 animal against which his hand is raised. 



It is believed, however, that there is a right and a wrong 

 time for killing Neat-cattle, Swine, and Sheep. The right 

 time, allowing them to be well fated, is when their meat 

 shrinks the least in boiling; and the wrong, when it shrinks 

 most. Some say the former is the case during the increase 

 of the moon ; and the latter, during its decrease. 



That this planet has its effect on the bodies of animals, 

 may readily be believed, from the mere circumstance of 

 lunacy among Men. 



It would be well to make some accurate experiments, to 

 ascertain the truth of this matter, by having animals, in- 

 tended for butchering, killed at different times ; say, at the 

 full of the moon, at its change, during its increase, and its 

 decrease ; and then, by boiling a given number of pounds 

 of the same parts of each together, and weighing each 

 separately after boiling a given time, the result would be 

 tolerably conclusive, as to the right time of killing. The 

 experiment should be repeated, if the first was not con= 

 elusive. 



L, 



LAMPAS. An excrescence in the roof of a Horse!s 

 mouth, which hinders him from feeding. Young Horses 

 are most liable to it. The usual cure is, applying a hot 

 iron to the swollen part. Mr, Gibson says that care must 



