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SO much more warm and comfortable, as to lessen the 

 expense of food, but it greatly increases the quantity of 

 manure. The author of the Farmer''s Manual^ suppo- 

 ses, that each creature properly stabled ^nd littered, 

 with coarse hay, straw, &c. furnishes the means of sav- 

 ing nearly the whole expense of wintering, in the next 

 year's tillage. 



Too little attention is paid in this country to the dis- 

 eases of domestic animals. We are bound by interest 

 and by motives of humanity to perform this reasonable 

 service. In consequence of the dominion man holdfs 

 over them, they acquire new and violent diseases, and 

 are made subject to casualties, that do not take place ia 

 those beasts which roam the forest ; they live only for 

 our benetit ; they cost us notliing in wages or clothing ; 

 •for all their services they require only at our hands, food 

 and shelter, and these of the cheapest and coarsest kind. 

 Who can reflect upon the services of the noble horse, 

 the labour of the ox, the utility of the cow, the cloath- 

 ing of the sheep ; and not acknowledge that we are 

 vastly their debtors, and that gratitude as well as inter- 

 est should move us to their relief, in all their maladies. 

 By making ourselves acquainted with the diseases of our 

 domestic animals, we prevent imposition, and rescue 

 them from the hands of the ignorant pretender, who, 

 by his improper and untimely remedies, disturbs the ef- 

 forts of nature, and increases the difficulty he would 

 wish to remove. Every grazier, therefore, ought to be 

 in possession of some approved book on the diseases of 

 live stock. 



On the proper selection of cattle, horses, sheep and 

 swine, and their management, the profits of a farm must 

 at all times materially depend. If we have those of 

 an unproductive kind ; if too many or too few — if fed 

 without judgment, or fattened at too great an expense, 

 they will deprive us ot that recompense which a farmer 

 ought to obtain. To close our remarks we would re- 

 commend to farmers not to keep more of any species of 

 animals, than they can keep well. It is much more 

 agreeable to see a small stock in fine order, than to see 

 a large stock of poor meagre looking animals, and it is 

 far more profitable. 



