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oats, 5*50 lb. ; maize, I2"92 lb. ; beans, 'lo lb. ; bran and 

 carrots, "50 lb. In this year moss litter was used for 

 litter instead of straw, the average weight used for 

 each animal having been about three-quarters of a 

 pound a day. 



Hoiv the French manage tJieir Stallions. — The 

 French work their stallions six or eight months in 

 the year, thus preserving their health and vigour, while 

 at the same time paying a revenue to their owners 

 instead of being a heavy expense. It is also certain 

 that regular work is an antidote for bad temper, and 

 that stallions would be much easier to handle and 

 have better dispositions were they subjected to suffi- 

 cient labour to keep them in good health. A stallion 

 in service should be in as hard condition as when in 

 training if his colts are to be sound and healthy, a 

 condition which they are not likely to be in if the 

 stallion is a sleek, fat animal, with fat taking the place 

 of muscle. 



Age of Animals. — A bear rarely exceeds twenty 

 years; a dog lives fifteen or sixteen years; a fox four- 

 teen or fifteen ; lions are long-lived — Pompey lived to 

 the age of seventy ; the average of cats is fourteen 

 years; squirrels or hares, seven or eight years; rabbits, 

 seven. Elephants have been known to live to the 

 great age of four hundred years. When Alexander 



