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heart must be that of a gasometer pump to the entire organised 
system : it may also have other functions to perform equally im- 
portant.” 
It would hardly be fair dealing to extract more largely than we 
have done from a pamphlet consisting of no more than one-and- 
twenty pages. We have set Mr. Turner’s “ discovery” forth, 
and pretty well in his own language ; we have also shewn how 
he has been led on to make it, and what deductions he has drawn 
from it; and, having done this, we are content to leave the matter 
to the judgment aud decision of wiser heads than our own. Thus 
much, however, we must say — that, whether it turn out to be the 
disclosure of “ a great fact,” or no fact at all, we, for our own part, 
hold ourselves Mr. Turner’s debtors for the persevering and un- 
daunted manner in which he has prosecuted his bold essays to 
extend the limits of medical science : nor can we, nor will we, 
conclude this notice of his work without promulgating it as our 
opinion, that his “ experiments,” hitherto, have not received the 
attention they justly deserved at the hands of persons at least 
equally with, if not more than ourselves, interested in the exten- 
sion of science in so important a direction. 
Rearing Cattle, with a view to early Maturity. 
The cows should be good milkers, able to keep at the rate of 
two-and-a-half to three calves each. It is, in general, highly 
expedient for the beef grower to attempt breeding his own bull. 
It is evidently much for the advantage of the breeder to spare no 
reasonable expense in obtaining a bull of thorough purity, and then 
to select his calves with the most scrupulous attention. It is very 
desirable to have all the cows to calve betwixt the 1st of February 
and the 1st of April. If earlier, they will get almost dry before 
the grass comes, and calves later than this will scarcely be fit for 
sale with the rest of the lot. When a calf is dropped, it is imme- 
diately removed from its dam, rubbed dry with a coarse cloth or 
wisp of straw, and then placed in a crib in the calf house among 
dry straw, when it receives a portion of its own mother’s first 
milk ; which, being of a purgative quality, is just what is needed 
by the young animal. For a fortnight, new milk is the only food 
suitable for it, and of this it should receive a liberal allowance 
thrice a day ; but means should now be used to train it to eat lin- 
seed cake and cut Swedish turnips; and the readiest way of doing 
so is to put a bit of cake into its mouth immediately after getting 
