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MORBID APPETITE IN SHEEP. 



season, when the stream is increased, it becomes 

 softer. 



It is curious that Mr. \Yarby mentioned that 

 a number of his cows had " slipped their calves," 

 or miscarried, and tbonglit it proceeded from 

 some poisonous herb tliey had eaten ; but Mr. 

 HuHie mmtioBed that his rnm^ "wkUh ttm 

 customed when bf^ing tci devoiiJr tJie ^a^th 

 impregTiated with saline particles, slip their 

 calvo^;," and he coidd attrilmtc it to no other 

 cause. Thifi occurred also at the farms of Goji- 

 mngt Mut^ mut, billy ^ and at all plac^ wlia^e^e 

 mtim piTop^siiy (»f liekiiig mid gnawijig the 

 irnline earth, and devouring tin; landis, occurred 

 among the ewes, " slipping the calves" oc- 

 curred among the cows ; but 1 heard nothing of 

 their dei^ouring the young. 



