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after repeated trials with a view to fix this 

 averment, I am unable to do so. Club-foot is 

 not lacking with awkward frequency, but 

 appears quite as often, so far as my experience 

 goes, with other fertilizers as with that from 

 the pig sty. A good liming and fresh-turned 

 soil are, so far as I can determine, the best 

 preventives. Another precaution, which, in 

 my view, should never be neglected, is to. re- 

 move and destroy at once all plants which 

 show symptoms of this ailment. 



"The cow is a more tractable subject. Of 

 course, you wish one that never kicks, that 

 any one can milk, that will not resent indig- 

 nities, and will yield you all the milk and, the 

 butter you need, and possibly the cheese. 



"I remember that a city gentleman of great 

 horticultural (and other) ability called upon 

 me not many years ago, and after descanting 

 upon the absurdity of planting two acres for 

 a crop which could be easily grown from 

 half an acre, he asked me how many quarts 

 of milk my cows averaged per diem? 'Four- 

 teen to fifteen quarts,' said I, 'in the flush 

 season.' 



" 'But that is very small,' said he; 'there is 

 no more reason why you should not have cows 

 giving twenty to twenty-four quarts a day, 



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