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lie will not bear to be left alone in a strange stable, without dis¬ 
covering the utmost impatience, and endeavouring to break the 
rack and manger with his fore-feet. He has been known to leap 
out at a stable window, through which dung was thrown, after 
company, and yet in other respects is remarkably quiet. Oxen 
and cows will not fatten by themselves, but will neglect the finest 
pasture that is not recommended by society. It would be needless 
to instance sheep, which constantly flock together. But this 
propensity seems not to be confined to animals of the same spe¬ 
cies, for we know a doe, still alive, that was brought up from a 
fawn with a dairy of cows; with them goes a-field, and with 
them it returns to the yard. The dogs of the house take no 
notice of this deer, being used to her; but, if strange dogs come 
by, a chase ensues ; while the master smiles to see his favourite 
securely leading her pursuers over hedge, or gate, or stile, till she 
returns to the cows, who, with fierce lowings and menacing horns, 
drive the assailants quite out of the pasture. Even great dis¬ 
parity of kind and size does not always prevent social advance 
and mutual fellowship; for a very intelligent and observant 
person has assured me that in the former part of his life, keeping 
but one horse, he happened also on a time to have a solitary hen. 
These two incongruous animals spent much of their time together 
in a lonely orchard, where they saw no creature but each other. 
By degrees an apparent regard began to take place between these 
two sequestered individuals. The fowl would approach the 
quadruped with notes of complacency, rubbing herself gently 
against his legs ; while the horse would look down with satisfac¬ 
tion, and move with the greatest caution and circumspection, lest 
he should trample on his diminutive companion. Thus, by mu¬ 
tual good offices, each seemed to console the vacant hours of the 
other. — White's Natural History of Selbourue. 
Experiments on producing and destroying Smut 
in Wheat. 
By Mr. S. Taylor, Jun. 
1. Wheat merely put in a bag where smutted wheat had been. 
Old wheat ......... 
1 
in 
30 
smutted 
New Kentish red, kiln-dried ..... 
1 
in 
ao 
ditto 
Yellow Lammas ditto ..... 
1 
in 
3 
ditto 
Spring wheat, having a small quantity of smut-powder 
shaken amongst it, more than .... 
1 
in 
2 
ditto 
