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FARMERS' REGISTER-ADULTERATION OF MU.K, &c. 



'Two crops of a tallow enricheth Ihe plough, 



though tone be of pease, it is land good enough. 

 One crop and a fallow some soile will abide; 

 where, if you go furder, lay profit aside.' 

 A number of sensible remarks are also made re- 

 garding the weeding, harvesting, thrashing, and 

 disposing of the respective crops, sonic of whicli 

 were apphcable only to the then existing slate ol 

 things; but others deserve attention at present. 



The benefit of enclosures was duly appreciated 

 by Mr. Tusser; and the importance of this mea- 

 sure was rendered doidily great, from the circum- 

 stance of many of the possessors of open lands 

 being at that time not very scrupulous in observ- 

 ing tiie line of their marches. In reference to 

 which ho says, 



'The country enclosed I praise, 

 the tother deli ghteth not inc. 



'More plenty of mutton and beefe, 



corn, butler, and cheese of the best; 

 More wealth any wliere, (to be briefe) 



more people, more handsome and prest. 

 Where finde ye? (go search any coast) 



than there where enclosure is most. 

 'More profit is quieter found 



(where pastures in severall be) 

 Of one silly aker of ground, 



than champion maketh of three. 

 Again, what a joy is it known 



when men may be bold of their own ?' 



A number of good obsei-vations are to be found 

 regarding the treatment of Live Stock, which it 

 may be unnecsessary to exhibit in detail. It may, 

 however, be proper to take notice of the very ill 

 judged, and, in many instances, ruinous practice 

 which then prevailed, of milking ewes for too long 

 a period after weaning their lambs. Yet expe- 

 rience lias not been found so convincing as to abo- 

 lish this reprehensible measure in the present day, 

 although some have suffered severely by it. Our 

 author says, 



'At Lammas leave milking for fear of a thing, 

 least requiem acternam in winter they sing.' 



Throughout the Booke are dispersed many ob- 

 servations on gardening, addressed to the house- 

 wife; from which it appears that Tusser considered 

 the culture of the garden as her peculiar pro- 

 vince. Upon this we shall also say, that if the 

 ladies of the present day were to undertake tliis 

 charge, it would at least put to silence the well 

 Icnown proverb, tliat good farmers are always bad 

 ganleners. 



hesion of the glands, and the nicest precision was 

 required in separating the iniiMSor maxillary artery, 

 as well as the jugular vein; but the ha'rnorrhage 

 was inconsiderable. The relief afforded the ani- 

 mal was instantly apparent, and truly gratifying 

 to those who saw the operation. The animal is 

 now quite well, and much improved in condition 

 and appearance. The gland weighed five pounds. 

 The improvements daily making in veterinary 

 practice must be . highly satisfactory to gentlemen 

 possessing valuable animals; and the advance- 

 ment of this branch of science, which has been 

 so many years neglected and left in unskilful 

 hands, promises very desirable benefits to society. 



PECULIAR BREED OF SHEEP IN THE NEPAL 

 COUNTRY. 



The huniah is a large tall breed, with slender, 

 compressed, spirally-twisted horns, and short nar- 

 row tail. Though now naturalized in the Kachar, 

 it is of trans-Hlsmalayan origin. The color is 

 almost invariably white. Individuals of this spe- 

 cies are apt to have three, four, and even five 

 bonis. The huniah cannot bear the heat of 

 Nepal south of the northern division, and will 

 doubtless flourish in England, where the experi- 

 ment is making of naturalizing it. Its wool is 

 supurb. — Journal of the j^siatic Society of Bengal. 



VETERINARY PRACTICE, 



From the British Farmers' Magazine. 

 An operation of q,n unusual description, and 

 attended with great success, was lately performed 

 by our townsman, Mr, J. Barrett, veterinary sur- 

 geon, on a valuable cow belonging to Robert Wins- 

 low, Esq. of Wilton, Somerset. The removal of 

 the sub-maxillaiy sparrotted gland, commonly call- 

 ed wen, which had been increasing in size beneath 

 the lower jaw, for the two past years, and fJir the 

 last two months appeared to endanger the life of 

 the animal fi'om suflocation and starvation, occa- 

 sioned by its extreme pressure on the windpij^e. 

 The incision that was necessarily made on tJie 

 part, measured twelve inches: and nn arduous dis- 

 section was then necessary on account of the nd- 



ADULTERATION OF MILK. 



From the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal. 



The subject of the aduUeration of milk has 

 been lately investigated with great care, by M. 

 Barruel of Paris. "Although his observations are 

 intended to apply only to the milk of that city, yet 

 there is little doubt that they will also be found 

 applicable in a greater or less degree to all great 

 towns. He sets out with stating that all instru- 

 ments for ascertaining the purity of milk, which 

 are calculated to attain this end by pointing out 

 diilerences in its density or specific gravity, are in- 

 accurate and useless. For, on the one hand, 

 pure milk differs much in density, according to 

 the fodder used by the dairy-man for his cows, 

 the butyraceous matter which imparts lowness of 

 density, being made to preponderate by some sorts 

 of food, and the caseous part, which increases the 

 density, being made pi'epoiiderant by other sorts. 

 And, on the other hand, although water, the ordina- 

 ry substance with which milk is adulterated by tlie 

 dealers in the L'rench capital, Avould alone cause 

 a great diminution of density, the dealers know 

 very well how to prevent that eflect, and so ren- 

 der the areometer useless. For this purpose, it is 

 only necessary to dissolve in the milk a little sugar- 

 candy, which is required at all events in order to 

 correct the flat taste imparted to milk by diluting 

 it with water. The result of M> Barruel 's inqui- 

 ries on the adulteration of milk in Paris, is, that 

 no positively noxious substance is ever to be found 

 in it; that a common practice is to remove a con- 

 siderable portion of the cream, by allowing tlie 

 milk to stand for a limited time, and then to dilute 

 the remainder, or skimmed milk, Avith water, and 

 to give it the apparent qualities of new milk in 

 one or other of the manners now to be mentioned. 

 The opacity of the milk being much diminished 

 by the water, so that the milk acquired a blueish 

 appearance, it was at one time usual to correct 

 this defect, by previously mixing wheat-flour with 



