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MISCELLANEA. 
“ According to Mr. Youatt (‘ Cattle’ p. 2), one-tenth of all the 
lambs and sheep of our island die annually of disease; of cattle one- 
fifteenth of their number die annually by inflammatory fever and 
milk fever, red-water, hoose, and diarrhoea. Of the great amount 
of property thus lost, of which very few persons are aware, he 
gives the following calculation: — ‘160,000 head of cattle are sold 
in Smithfield alone, without including calves or the dead market — 
the carcasses sent up from various parts of the country. If we 
reckon this to be a tenth part of the cattle slaughtered in the United 
Kingdom, it follows that 1,600,000 cattle are sent to the butcher 
every year, and, averaging the life of the ox or the cow at five 
years, the value of British cattle, estimated at £10 per head, will 
be £80,000,000 sterling. 1,200,000 sheep, 36,000 pigs, and 
18,000 calves are also sent to Smithfield in the course of a year, 
and if we reckon these to be one-tenth of the whole number, and 
allow only two years as the average duration of the lives of sheep 
and pigs, and value the calves at £2 10s each, the pigs at £2, and 
the sheep at £1 10s, we shall arrive at the additional sum of nearly 
£40,000,000 ; so that we may safely compute the actual value of 
cattle, sheep, and swine to be nearly £120,000,000 sterling.’ 
“ If, therefore, one-fifteenth of all the cattle of England are 
annually lost by disease, more than £5,000,000 worth of cattle 
thus perish every year, and with these also die of disease about 
£3,500,000 worth of sheep.” 
Boar Hunting. 
In the year 1829 there was a boar killed in the forest of 
Camillon, near Bourbonne-les-Bains, in the Department of Marne, 
that had ravaged the country for some years. He had destroyed 
several packs of hounds in the fruitless chase, and fought several 
bloody battles. He weighed 485 pounds, and had above thirty 
balls lodged in his body when he fell. The boar takes four or five 
years to attain his full growth, and lives about thirty years. The 
sow commences breeding about one year old, breeds but once a 
year, and generally has from six to ten at a litter. The Marechal 
de Yauban wrote g, treatise on these animals, which he facetiously 
called his Cochonerie. His calculation is, that the posterity of a 
single sow might, in eleven years, amount to the enormous number 
of 434, 833! 
