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which, being strained, purified, and pressed into 

 moulds, constitutes glue, without which our 

 chairs and tables would fall in pieces. 



With regard to the purchase, sale, and ma- 

 nagement by the farmer, of these and other 

 animals, of which I shall have to speak, little 

 need be said in this place. They have their 

 varieties, in kind and quality : they have, too, 

 their diseases; and there are different modes 

 of treating them, according to varying customs, 

 circumstances, and climates. These cattle are 

 less dainty, as feeders in a pasture, than the 

 horse and the sheep ; and leave fewer orts, or 

 refuse food, behind them. In winter, they need 

 hay and turnips. The latter, sometimes, , are 

 lodged even in their capacious throats; when 

 an instrument, called a choaking rope a reme- 

 dy which to us would be worse than the disease 

 is used to push it down. A worse misfor- 



