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ing your stock by weight and measure of food will not only 

 save your provender, by its orderly distribution, but frequent- 

 ly save the lives of animals, too often starved by niggardliness 

 or neglect, or gorged and destroyed by profusion. If it be 

 true, as it is, that the master's eye makes the horse fat, ' it is 

 equally so that the master's eye prevents the horse from being 

 pampered, wanton, pursive, bloated, foundered, and finally 

 wind broken and blind.' 



If hay is salted by using salt in substance, it should be 

 done at the time it is deposited in the mow. It is often a 

 good practice to sprinkle a solution of salt in water over hay 

 or other food for cattle in the winter time, especially if the 

 fodder be of an inferior quality. 



Colonel Jaques, of Ten Hills farm, Charlestown, (Mass.) 

 has been very successful in the breeding and rearing of neat 

 cattle, and recommends from actual experiment the following 

 mixture : 



Take Ruta Baga, cut fine, 2 bushels. 



" Wheat bran, 1 bushel. 



" Powdered oil cake, J bushel. 



" English hay, barley straw, and 



salt hay, cut, of each, 7 bushels. 



" Water, 10 gallons. 



Let them be perfectly mixed. Give a bushel of the mix- 

 ture to a cow of the con.mon size every night and morning, 

 and proportionably to greater or smaller animals. 



O71 soiling laboring Oxen and Horses. By soiling do- 

 mestic animals, is meant keeping them in yards, &;c., and 

 cutting and giving them grass, with or without other green 

 or dry food. Instead of turning your oxen and horses, 

 which you have occasion to use frequently, into a pasture, 

 perhaps adorned with thickets of brushwood, in which the 

 animals may hide themselves beyond the reach of a search 

 warrant, you had better soil them, and thus have them al- 

 ways at hand. You must be careful that they are always 

 well supplied with water, and plenty of litter to absorb the 

 liquid manure, unless you have reservoirs, &c. to answer the 

 purpose of preventing its waste. The famous cultivator 

 Arthur Young observed that lucerne is the best plant for 

 soiling, and an acre of it will go farther than any thing else. 

 But clover or any other grass, green or dry, butts of Indian 

 corn cut up near the roots, cabbages, &c., &c., may often be 

 economically disposed of in soiling cattle or horses whose 

 services are requisite for the daily and hourly labors of the 



