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nates in death. But if she chance to survive all these, she is 

 soon taken with the hollow-horn, or the hoof-ail ; and should 

 she wade through the whole, the inference is, she has been 

 favored with mild weather and a good nurse. 



Then another evil, consequent on this disease, is the scar- 

 city of milk and butter, and the extravagantly high price of 

 the latter, notwithstanding its poverty, not to say its poison, 

 at a season of the year when it should be most abundant 

 and most perfect in quality. 



The falling off in the milk, in point of quantity, has been 

 known to exceed one half, and the difference in respect to 

 purity and richness, is probably still greater. In latitude 4TC 

 north, and so on to 46, these deficiencies have been observed 

 to commence, where the Slobber Grass flourishes freely, 

 about the first, or during the first half of July ; and although, 

 in ordinary seasons, they may be partly regained, as tin's 

 grass dies away in the frosts of the declining year, yet, 

 should the cow live through the disease, the effect continues 

 to a great extent until she comes to a renewal of her milk. 

 Well tested experiments sufficiently prove that a cow, coming 

 to her milk, where she has had a free use of this grass, in 

 the month of August or September — may not have one gill ; 

 though previously eminent for a rich and large supply of 

 this needful nourishment. 



All these afflictions, and inflictions, have been charged, 

 from time immemorable, to the account of the bad seasons, 

 — the want of rain, or the excess of rain; the dirth of feed, 

 or the poverty of feed; the influence of the climate, or the 

 presence of the dog-star; the heat of the weather, the change 



