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milk punch, made under the cow, is very much used. 

 When there is a sufficient quantity immediately after the cows 

 have calved, the young negro-children are regaled with a 

 mess pf milk each for their breakfast. 



Oxen are bred for the butchers, the gain arising from 

 which, is generally sufficient to pay all colonial taxes. Rear- 

 ing stock on an estate is here highly profitable, but more es- 

 pecially horned cattle, and those planters who lay out a small 

 proportion of their capital that way, and have good pasturage, 

 find their accoimt in it. I knew an instance of ten heifers 

 feeing purchased out of a cargo brought from the Cape de Verd 

 Islands; four died immediately, the other six were grazed six 

 months, and then sold for double the amount the original ten 

 cost. There is little fear but these colonies will in a short time 

 raise more stock of every kind than can possibly be used, 

 which will be the means of making living considerably 

 cheaper here, and of preparing a new source of supply for 

 the West India islands. The fine savannahs in the interior, 

 present a field for graziers which even North America can- 

 not boast of. What is the case in the Orinoko ? Beef sells 

 for three-halfpence per pound, and the cattle are allowed to 

 run wild in the savannahs. Mules are already bred here in 

 ■great abundance, and are the finest in the world ; nearly all 

 the West Indies are hence supplied with those animals. 



