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mouldy ; which injures the quality of the grass, and 

 greatly increases the labor of cutting. Let the motto of 

 the farmer be to plough often, and seed often and plenti- 

 fully with grass seeds. 



SIXTHLY Raising Domestic Animalt. 



.n preparing to raise domestic animals, the first thing to 

 be considered is the use *br which they are intended. 

 No prudent, well-informed man, would think of raising 

 a racer from the French horse of Canada, or a plough- 

 horse from the light racer of the south ; a fine woolled 

 sheep from a Cotswold, or a heavy mutton sheep from a 

 fine Saxony ; a pig that should fatten young from a land 

 pike, or one which would attain great weight from the 

 Chinese breed We have different breeds, and these are 

 adapted to different purposes. 



After having selected that breed of the different kinds 

 of domestic animals which he thinks best adapted to the 

 purpose for which he wishes to rear, he should endeavor 

 to obtain good animals to reed from. These he should 

 never suffer to deteriorate, but should endeavor, by care- 

 fully preserving the best animals for breeders, to improve 

 on his stock. In order to do this, it is necessary to feeu 

 well, and keep the animal constantly improving. By 

 feeding well, we do not mean high or extravagant feed ; 

 but \ve mean, start the animal as you can hold out, and 

 never suffer it to lose an inch which is gained ; for if 

 you do, the forage consumed by the animal while falling 

 back and again coming up to the point before attained, 

 is lost ; also the time, care and attention bestowed upon 

 it, and the interest on the value of the animal in the 

 meantime. In addition to all this, it is doubtful whether 

 an animal so treated is capable of becoming so perfect 

 aa it might have been, if it had been at all times kepi 



