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necessary to show the falsehood of the representation. This 
would effectually put an end to the contemptible quibblings 
of the law and the whole category of absurdities which I have 
been endeavouring to describe. The seller would be pre- 
vented from the practice of imposition, and for the rest it is 
the duty of the purchaser to protect himself. If he wants 
confidence in his own judgment of such matters, let him 
take the opinion and be guided by the advice of some one 
whose avocations or tastes have fitted him for such a duty, 
and in whom trust can be imposed. Such are the plain 
principles by which men are guided in all other matters of 
business, and it would be difficult to find a reason why the 
sale and purchase of a horse has been allowed to form an 
exception. The sooner such an anomaly as this is got rid of 
the better. 
With these hints I must bring the subject to a conclusion 
for the present. I fear my letter is already sadly too long for 
your pages, but it appeared to me that a newspaper was the 
proper channel for the circulation of this question, and the 
interest which can hardly fail to attach to it in a district so 
purely agricultural as ours, and at a time like the present, 
must furnish my apology. 
I am, yours. 
MANAGEMENT OE DAIRY CATTLE. 
By T. Horsfall. 
' ( Continued from page 107.) 
I am clearly of opinion that you can increase the propor- 
tion of butter in milk more than that of casein, or other 
solid parts. From several, who have adopted my treatment, 
I learn that on substituting rape-cake for beans, they per- 
ceive an increased richness in their milk. Mr. T. Garnett, of 
Clitheroe, who has used bean-meal largely as an auxiliary food, 
for milch-cows during the winter season, tells me that when 
rape-cake is substituted, his dairymaid, without being in- 
formed, perceives the change from the increased richness of 
the milk. Mr. Garnett has also used linseed-cake in like 
quantity, still his dairy people prefer rape-cake. 
Mr. Whelon, of Lancaster, who keeps two milch cows for 
his own use, to which he gave bean-meal and bran as 
auxiliaries, ha3 recently substituted rape-cake for bean-meal ; 
