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births to females was 90.6 per cent. ; when of equal age, 90 per cent. ; 
but when the age of the father was greater than the mother, nine to 
eighteen years, it was 143 per cent. 
Similar in principle was the experience of M. C. C. de Buzareurgnes, 
who professed to have the power of controlling the sexes in sheep ; his 
principle being the same as the above, viz, that vigor was favorable to 
female, and the converse to male births. For females he proposed to 
select young rams, and place them in a good pasture ; for males, three 
to five shear animals, and to place them in an inferior pasture. Ilis 
experiment was successful. In his female trial there were seventy-six 
female lambs produced against thirty-five males ; and, in his male trial, 
there were produced eighty males against fifty-five females. Another 
trial was made by M. Cournuejouls. One section was put to young male 
lambs, and on a good pasture ; the other on a poorer pasture, and with 
old rams. The result was, that in the first experiment there were fifteen 
males and twenty-five females, and, in the second, there were twenty-six 
males and fourteen females. 
Buzareurgnes also showed that in several lots the approximations 
to male or female births, were also in the ratio of the ages of the 
animals on both sides. Thus, of the young ewes put to the young rams, 
the two-year old ewes produced fourteen males and twenty-six females, 
the three-year old gave sixteen males and twenty-nine females ; whereas 
the four-year old ewes, to the aged rams, and on the poor pasture, pro- 
duced thirty-three males and fourteen females. 
More than this is not known ; but there is quite sufficient to indicate 
that the breeder possesses at least considerable power in controlling the 
proportion of the sexes, and that the more vigor he has of frame and 
food, the greater will be the proportion of females ; and that the con- 
verse of this will hold equally good. There is enough in the principle to 
deserve a trial. 
We now proceed with details descriptive of the management of ca'tle, 
under the heads of rearing and fattening. The first object being to 
secure a suitable breeding stock, and a provision for proper buildings for 
their accommodation and shelter. 
Rearing. — It is most advantageous to have the calves drop in the early 
part of the year, that the young grass may be ready for them about the 
time of weaning. New milk is best for the young calf for the first 
fortnight, when it may be trained to feed upon other food, such as lin- 
seed-cake, or sweet hay ; and when it will cat those freely, its allowance 
of milk may be gradually reduced, and sliced Swedes or carrots added 
to its food. The cribs should be kept clean, the food regularly supplied, 
and the calves themselves should always receive kind and gentle treat- 
ment. Perseverance" in such management will greatly aid the growth 
of the young animals ; when kindly treated, there will be no restless 
excitement on the approach of strangers, and they are easily managed 
when surgical operations become necessary from disease or accident. 
All graziers are fully alive to the importance of docility in all fatting 
animals. 
After three or four weeks the male calves may be castrated, an opera- 
tion attended with less risk and pain when done at an early age. It is 
