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this month, such as apples, pears, peaches and plums. Vegetables, 
tomatoes and green corn will make their appearance. Flowers, 
such as China asters, dahlias and sun flowers. 
Apples should be budded early in this month, and peaches from 
middle to the end. 
CATTLE. 
Next to the horse, the cow is perhaps the most justly valued 
and useful animal, longest domesticated, and most extensively 
propagated of any animal which man has been able to domesti- 
cate. Man may be said to be more dependent on this race than 
on any other which the creator has in his wisdom called into 
existence; and the readiness with which it acclimates itself to 
the nature of its food, and increases and diminishes in size ac- 
cording to the plenty or scarcity of the pasture, and the circum- 
stances of climate, is an obvious indication of benevolent accommo- 
dation to the varied localities in which the human family, whose 
habitation it was destined to accompany, were to be found. Its 
nature is equally capable of sustaining the rigors of heat and cold, 
of inhabiting the frozen fields of Iceland, as well as the burning 
deserts of Lybia. It seems, in some of its form, an ancient in- 
mate in every climate — savage and wild in the countries which 
are less peopled, but capable of being made useful in all. 
We need not enumerate all the blessings which have been 
bestowed on man in the possession of this useful quadruped. 
Every one is acquainted with the patient labor of the ox, and 
knows that the cow supplies him with a delicious beverage, 
which when prepared in the form of butter and cheese, furnishes 
agreeable' varieties to the luxuries of his table; and that when 
the animal is killed, its flesh affords him substantial and accept- 
able food, and its hide contributes in various ways to his service 
in the form of leather, while its very bones are ground down to 
manure and fertilize his fields. 
