68 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



Club-foot is not lacking with awkward frequency ; 

 but appears quite as often, so far as iny experience 

 goes, with other fertilizers as with that from the pig 

 stye. A good liming and fresh-turned soil are, so far 

 as I can determine, the best preventives. Another 

 precaution, which, in my view, should never be neg- 

 lected, is to remove and destroy at once all plants 

 which show symptoms of this ailment. 



" The cow is a more tractable subject. Of course, 

 you wish one that never kicks, that any one can milk, 

 that will not resent indignities, and will yield you all 

 the milk and the butter you need, and possibly the 

 cheese. 



" I remember that a city gentleman of great horti- 

 cultural (and other) ability called upon me not many 

 years ago, and after descanting upon the absurdity 

 of planting two acres for a crop which could be easily 

 grown from half an acre, he asked me how many 

 quarts of milk my cows averaged per diem ? ' Four- 

 teen to fifteen quarts,' said I, ' in the flush season.' 



" ' But that is very small,' said he ; ' there is no 

 more reason why you should not have cows giving 

 twenty to twenty-four quarts a day, than why you 

 should not have strawberries giving two quarts to 

 the plant.' 



" I was not prepared to gainsay the proposition. 

 The truth is, I feel a certain awe of distinguished 



