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although only fifteen months old. I had her served, as her breed¬ 
ing was so good that I was very anxious to get a calf from her, if 
possible. The result is very satisfactory, as early this morning 
she dropped a fine cow calf.— Cultivator and County Gentleman. 
How Long Horses Can Live Without Food. —Several inter¬ 
esting experiments have recently been made in England to find 
out how long a horse can live without food, and how little he can 
live on. It has been proved that a horse can live twenty-five 
days on nothing but water, and it can live seventeen days without 
either eating or drinking; it will only live five days on solid food 
without enough to drink. It follows, therefore, that water con¬ 
stitutes a very important item in the nourishment required by a 
horse. The fact has been stated that after having been deprived 
of water for three days a horse has drunk fifty-two litres in three 
minutes.— Turf ’ Field and Farm. 
A Prolific Heifer. —The Jersey Heifer Tina, dropped March 
28,1879, dropped her first calf April 13,1880, at 1 year and 16 days 
old; her second calf March 12, 1881, at the age of 1 year, 11 
months, and 12 days, and the third cnlf Jan. 27, 1882, at the age 
of 2 years, 9 months and 29 days. The last two calves were 
heifers. She gave the first season, in June, 11 quarts per day, 
making eight pounds 11 ounces of butter per week. The sec¬ 
ond year, in June, she gave 27 pounds of milk per day, mak¬ 
ing 2 pounds \ ounce of fine quality butter per day. At this 
date, (Jan. 30, 1882) she is giving 11 quarts per day. She is 
strong and healthy; live weight about 150 pounds; color dark 
fawn and white; dam Bessie ; g. d. Lilly, from Wm. Redmon’s 
herd, South Orange, N. J.; sire General P.; g. s. Gen. P. Bel¬ 
linger; imp. Alpliea.— The Cultivator and County Gentleman. 
A Six-Legged Cow. —The butchers in Washington Market 
were greatly exercised recently about the presence of a live cow 
on exhibition in their midst with six legs and a vertebrae as 
crooked as the branch of a sour apple tree. She was brought by 
a man named Charles Andres all the way from Colorado, where 
she was picked out of a herd of cattle grazing on the plains, but 
the herd was in complete ignorance that any one of its number 
carried six legs, otherwise a mass meeting might have been held 
