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more scientific language, the wasnt of it, by 
the blood, \ bich is alway’s fatal. 
- They who are-at all acquainted with the solijck, 
on which we write, need hardly be told} that there 
are many circumstances, independent of food, clean- 
liness and’ quiet, which influence the fatting of eattle. 
We stalk mention them separately, and adda few 
words to each, in explanation. 
~ Ist. Constitution. \ If this be not sound and heal- 
ily, no care nor éxpence wilh be sufficient {o correct 
it. The animal. will want’ appetite, or have too 
much of it, ~~ a it rr" will n not better its condi- 
tion. Prac 
eyes :Cuiitesiie The flesh of males is brite) fibrous 
and ill-flavored, and that. of females, not spayed, far 
inferior to'the flesh of those which have undergone 
that operation.. Where the testicles in the one, and 
the ovaria in the other, are early and completely re- 
moved; the animals become more docile, less rest- 
_ and fat with great facility. | “ 
8d. Temperature.’ Whoever makes the experi- 
pil will find,'that this considevation is’ very impor- 
tant. The cold of winter, the heat of summer, and 
the capricious character of the spring, are all adverse 
to the fatting ofcatile, though perhaps not equally 
so. The autumn, on the other hand, long and tem: 
perate, is the true season for that business, not only 
from the greater abundance of food which is then to 
be found, but because the: transpiration of the ani- 
mal is then first: a and immediqtely: aweewennt 
into tallow. And’: 
Ath. Age. Dallow: 1s formed’ from the vile pide 
