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for a day, then his horse has repose. Unhappily not so. That day,, 

 instead of being one of rest, is employed in fantasia, the most ex- 

 travagant exertions and most brutal and violent treatment, so that 

 not unfrequently he perishes or is lamed for life. 



From ihe same work. 



Agricultural Precepts. 



The indication of good farming is the number of stock. One ox^ 

 or what is equal, ten sheep, on every hectare of land, (about two and 

 a half acres). 



Pastures which furnish the best butter, are those whose soil has 

 much lime, plaster, or marl. Lime should not be put on soil where 

 it is very wet. 



One quart of urine, properly applied, is worth one pound and a 

 quarter of bread. 



Wool. 



The history of this inestimable production always proves interest- 

 ing to those public spirited men who love (and labor in) the cause of 

 human welfare. Some such individuals in Scotland, more than a 

 century ago, had with great expense and care carried out the theory, 

 that fine wool is the product of the sheep when reared on cold and 

 almost barren mountains. They had reared a breed of shtep there, 

 whose fleeces were almost as fine as the famous ancient product of 

 Coraxi, two thousand years ago. About the beginning of the war 

 of 1756, the magistrates of a considerable town in the north of 

 Scotland, famous for its manufacture of worsted stockings, desirous 

 of expressing the esteem which they bore for their countryman,. 

 Marshal Keith, resolved to present him a pair of stockings of their 

 own manufacture, of uncommon fineness. With that view they 

 commissioned a person to purchase in London, some of the finest 

 wool that could possibly be found, without any limitation as to the 

 price. In consequence, some pounds of the very finest Spanish wool 

 which could be picked out by the best judges, were sent to them. 

 When it arrived the magistrates sent for the women who were to 

 manufacture it, and having told them what they wanted, showed 

 them the wool they had got for that purpose. But the women when 

 they had examined it, complained of its quality, saying that it was 

 too coarse, that they could not undertake to draw above forty heeresy 

 (a heere is a thread six hundred yards long) from one pound of it. 

 But they said that if the magistrates would wait till the Highland: 



