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[N-DOOR SYSTEM, IN LIEU OF PASTURE, FOR 
CATTLE AND SHEEP. 
By Nimrod. 
On returning to Melton Mowbray one day last season, after a 
run with the Queen’s hounds, in company with a celebrated sports¬ 
man then on a visit to the Earl of Wilton, the conversation turned 
to the superior condition of hunters, and the comparative diminu¬ 
tion of suffering by them, in their work, over those of by-gone 
times, the effect of the in-door system of summering, together with 
improved grooming in the winter. I remember saying—not irre¬ 
verently, I hope—in allusion to my Letters on the Condition of 
Hunters, that I expected my sins would be forgiven me in consi¬ 
deration of my successful efforts to alleviate the sufferings of so 
noble an animal as the horse, given to us, without doubt, for our 
pleasure and use, but not as the object of our abuse. Happy am I, 
then, to find, that what has been written and said on this subject 
has opened the eyes of scientific and thinking agriculturists to 
similar advantages of the in-door system to both neat cattle and 
sheep. My Lord Western has called public attention to the ad¬ 
vantages he has experienced from keeping his sheep in the house, 
whilst those of other people have been abroad. A correspondent in 
the Mark-lane Express, a few weeks back, bore similar testimony 
relating to sheep and cattle; and in the same Journal, of the 24th 
ult., is the following interesting Letter, detailing the advantages of 
the in-door system in the prevention of one of the most destructive 
diseases to which young neat cattle are liable in our uncertain 
climate:— 
“ To the Editor of the ‘ Mark-lane Express' 
“ Sir,—In answer to a question put by a * Derbyshire Farmer,’ 
for the best remedy or preventive for the quarter evil, or what they 
term black leg in yearling calves, from my own experience this 
last winter, I have 33, kept in three different parts, 13 of which 
are turned into a shed by night as early as the third week in Sep¬ 
tember, served with a little hay and fresh littered every night, 
turned into the pasture by day : this was followed up till the middle 
of November; then they were tied up by night, served and fresh 
littered as before : of those 1 have not lost one. They have been 
particularly healthy, and thrive much faster with less food than 
those out of doors. Of 11 others that were hayed in their pasture 
as early as those in house, I lost one in the quarter evil; of nine 
more, managed precisely the same as the 11,1 lost oile; so, judging 
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