180 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



that the disease is checked and controlled by frosts ; the inference 

 therefore is, that there is no safety in suffering them to come in 

 until cold, frosty weather sets in, which hardly ever comes earlier 

 than the first of November.' " 



As to their value for any economical purpose, beyond their 

 hides, what little tallow they have, their horns and bones for 

 manufacturing or fertihzing purposes, we consider them of httle 

 consequence within the bounds of modern civilization, or intelli- 

 gent agriculture. 



