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require the male at the usual season." The case was just 

 the same with us here in the south ; never were so many 

 barren cows known as in the spring following that dreadful 

 period. Whole dairies missed being in calf together. 



At the end of March the face of the earth was naked to a 

 surprising degree. Wheat hardly to be seen, and no signs 

 of any grass; turnips all gone, and sheep in a starving 

 way. All provisions rising in price. Farmers cannot sow 

 for want of rain. 



