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nour'shment given to animals, beyond that necessary 
to their mere physical developement ; whence it fok 
lows, that those which have not attained their full 
growth are fatted with difficulty, and only by extra- 
ordinary means. Calves, for example, can only be 
fatted by great quantities of milk, to which must of- 
ten be added, eggs, barley or oat meal, or the flour 
of beans and peas; and with all this abundance and 
selection of food, they. yield little.if any interior fat 
or tallow. . Whereas oxen, at six years of age, with 
correspondent treatment, give large quantities of 
that article.  Old-cattle ave also, from loss of teeth, 
debility of stomach, or other internal disorganiza- 
tion, difficult to fat...These facts: sufficiently indi- 
cate what, on this head, ought to be our practice} to 
fallen cattle as soon after they have attained ‘their 
grovih as possible, Oxen generally .attain ‘their 
growth at five or six years, and sheep and) hogs: at 
two, : z 
“SECTION XIV. 
Of the Dairy. 
Tur business of the dairy, besides its: connexion 
with the subject of the last chapter, is too important 
in itself to be omitted in any professed treatise 6n 
Agriculture. _ We shall, therefore, consign what we 
have to say upon it, to the present section, A few 
preliminary observations may be proper. 
