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In Buckland, cows are pastured at twenty-five cents per 

 week, including salt. Store-sheep two cents each for sheep 

 and lambs. Wethers designed for fatting, and requiring the 

 best feed, at four cents per week. Pasturing of an average 

 quality will feed eight cows upon thirty acres. A yoke of 

 oxen require half as much again as two cows. 



In Hawley, two acres of pasturage are considered sufficient 

 for a cow. The pasturage, it is obvious from these statements, 

 differs greatly in different parts of the county, and as a general 

 remark it may be said, that the pasturage on the west side is 

 much superior to that on the east side of Connecticut river. 



In the fattening of cattle, universal experience shows the J 

 importance of a scrupulous punctuality as to the times of feed- * 

 ing. Under the influence of that mighty despot, habit, which 

 reigns thoughout the animal creation, these animals measure 

 time with great exactness; and if, at the customary hour, the feed 

 is not ready for them, they become restless, uneasy, and fretful, 

 dispositions exceedingly unfriendly in all cases to thrift. Dur- 

 ing the time of feeding they should have little given to them at 

 a time, that their food may not become loathsome by being fre- 

 quently tossed over and blown upon. They should be treated 

 likewise with great gentleness and kindness ; and all pains 

 should be taken to give them a dry bed, and to keep them 

 clean. An intelligent farmer in Deerfield is of opinion, that 

 the disease in oxen, vulgarly called the '-fouls," lameness in 

 the feet, from which fatting cattle are very liable to suffer, is 

 owing to feeding them with new corn, or corn not sufficiently 

 ripened. This may be the case ; but I believe it is not seldom 

 occasioned by their standing in wet yards and wet stalls, and 

 little or no attention being paid to keeping their feet clean. 

 The disease called the foot-rot in sheep, which is an excessively 

 troublesome disorder, I have little doubt is occasioned by the 

 same cause. At least I have observed that it has been brought 

 out and always aggravated by their standing in wet yards. 

 Perhaps there is in such cases a predisposition to the disease ; 

 and we know that luxurious living and repletion, as well in 



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