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the time of her calving. If afterwards 

 pinched, there will be danger of her not 

 taking the bull the next year. 



Hence we may infer, with a degree of 

 fafety, that the propriety, or impropriety, of 

 bringing heifers into milk at two years old 

 depends principally upon SOIL and SITU- 

 ATION. 



On a good foil, and in a genial clirnature, 

 in which heifers do not experience a check 

 from the time they are dropt, they ought, 1 

 am clearly of opinion, to be permitted ta 

 take the bull whenever nature prompts them. 



But in lefs genial iituations, where lean 

 ill-hcrbaged lands are to be paftured with 

 young cattle, it appears to me equally evi- 

 dent, that heifers ought not, in ftrictnefs of 

 management, to be fuffered to come into 

 milk before they be THREE YEARS OLD. 

 . GEN. OBSERV. ON REARING CATTLE. The 

 preient dearnefs, arifmg beyond difpute from 

 a real fear city, of cattle appears to be a matter 

 ef fenous import to the community. Had it 

 .Rot been for the immenfe influx of frifii 

 cattle, which have, during the laft three or 

 four years, poured into this Ifland, the gra- 

 zing 



