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summer to winter diet, and from winter to summer, 

 it must be remembered that all sudden changes from 

 great succulence to dry food, or vice versa, is to be 

 most cautiously avoided. Lack of care on this score, 

 is the secret of half the cow ailments. 



" If I were to lay down a pleasant and productive 

 winter dietary for your Alderney, it would be a peck 

 of sliced roots in the morning, not forgetting a lock 

 of sweet hay ; at noon, a quart or two of brewer's 

 grains and fresh water ad libitum / at night, a warm 

 pailful of drink, into which a quart of coarsely ground 

 buckwheat meal shall have been stirred, and another 

 lock of sweet hay in way of nightcap. 



" With such food, and an occasional combing, at 

 the hands of Patrick, (all the better if daily,) I think 

 you may count upon such golden returns of cream as 

 will bring back a taste of the grassy spring-time." 



Thus much for Lackland's Pig and Cow. 



On Gateways. 



I HAVE often wondered why the professional 

 writers on landscape gardening have so little to 

 say of gateways. Among the more pretentious 

 authors of this class I find sketches of gate-lodges, 

 very charming in their details, many of them ; but I 



find little or no mention of those modest gates which 

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