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to this bufinefs, and a great variety of vege- 
table produéts as well as foils of different 
kinds are thus immerfed, and even fre- 
quently placed under the cattle in the houfes 
in which they ftand.—What proportion, 
in re(pect to ftreneth and effect, manures 
thus ‘prepared bear to that of freth dung, 
has not yet perhaps been fully aicer tained, 
There cannot however be any doubt of 
manures prepared by means of the procels 
of fermentation being very efficacious in. 
improving the condition of land, when pro- 
perly applied. 
The ftall-feeding of cattle is likewife 
another advantag:ous mode of procuring 
manure, as well as of producing large pro- 
fits of other kinds; but it requires large 
capital, great aitertien and saaien labour. 
Fei is well known that a piece of greund, 
which in grafs could not afford food for 
one animal, will fupply four in the ftall, 
provided its produce be cut at a fiidable 
time and proverly adminifiered to them. 
Befides, double the quantity of manure is 
made ‘ane the fame number of animals. 
The advantages in the way of milk and 
fattening are ‘alio much sreater than in the 
cominon practice. Rhis methed of ma- 
nagement is probably not yet fufficiently 
employed in many parts of the country. 
In the Low Countries cattle are fome- 
times fed with coleteed cake, which ‘is 
found to be a very wholefume and nn- 
tritious fodder. The exoence of culti¥a- 
tion and preparation are however probably 
too great for fuch a practice being gene- 
rally introduced with any profpect of ad- 
vantage. Other fimilar fubftances may 
perhaps be employed with more fuccefs. 
Dr. PrtEsTLeyY will fhortly commit to 
prefs a work, “On the Injtitutions of 
Moses, compared with thi fe of BRAUMA 
and the Eafiern, Afiatics.’ A candid 
comparifon of the laws of the HEBREWS 
with thofe of the Hinnoos, by fo able a 
writer, cannot tail to ineerek: every firtend 
oi literature. 
A fingular phenomenoninregar 
— The following phenomenon is announ- 
ced in the Journal de Phyfique, 6th Ther- 
midor, 1798, by Citizen Serain, officer of 
health, at Saintes:—‘* This fummer I 
was witnefs to an extraordinary faét, to 
nie totally new, and which, in my cpinien, 
cannot eafily be accounted for. One day, 
when fome ‘people in this neighbourhood 
were preparing to churn butter, they *vere 
‘aftonifhed to And all the cream ey a fine 
Pruffian-blue colour. The cafeous part 
was only blueith. Every drienaat to dif- 
coverthe caufe of this extraordinary co- 
Jour was traiuefs, though the cream ex- 
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hibited the fame appearance for nearl 
three months. It could not be afcribed to 
the veffels ‘in which the milk was pre- 
ferved, as they. were kept perfeGly clean, 
and covered with fr boards. The cows 
were in exceeding good health, and fed on 
meadows on which they had grazed for 
feveral years. This milk was uled as 
food, without any hurt entuing, and it had 
no uncominon tafte; but the cream and 
cafeous parts were thrown away, as they- 
infpired fome dread. The cream gra- 
dually changed its colour; but this could 
not be aferibed to the means employed 
during the continuance of the phenomenon 
—means, indeed, fo ridiculous, that I do 
not think it worth while to detail them. 
In the § Ephemervides of the ‘Curious of 
Nature,’ Dec. 2, 1688, we find inttances of 
milk being coloured green, black, red, and 
yellow; but { am acquainsed with no ob. 
fengaeion fimilar to that abovementioned. 
The plan of government, which the 
new Eletor of Bavaria has adopted, is 
excellent. All falaries of the public func 
tionaries are to be confiderably increafed, 
and all finecures to be abolifhed. The 
expences of the Court have been much 
curtailed ; the fervants of the kitchen and 
the life euands have been reduced to one 
half of their former number, and the pages 
to fix. The Eleétoral treafury adminif- 
ters the expenditure and the receipts of 
the theatre of Munich. All countr 
{chool- matters are to have a fixed falary, 
and a new feminary for educating f{chool- 
matters is to be ereted as foon as peace 
fhall be reftored to Germany. The Elec 
tor examines every thing perfonally, and 
is the maft aktive commiflary of police at 
Munich, which nes the Jate government 
was fuperintended oe Count Rumford. Pro-. 
feflor Lawrente Hitbner, of Saltzburg, who 
Was very odious to Ge late government of 
Bavaria, on aceount of his connexion with 
the famous order of Illuminati, is going 
to be called to Munich, to have the direc- 
tion of a new!paper, which 18 to be pub. 
lithed there under the prcteétion of the 
Court. All toreign literary gazettes and 
periodical papers, a uielt were prohibited 
hitherto in Bavaria, are now permitted to 
be impored freely. All members of the 
committee who were appointed by the 
late Elector to examine manulcripts and 
becks, previous to their being permitted 
to be printed or circulated, and who rena 
dered the name of their country odious by 
their literary tyranny, have been difmifled 
with the exception only of Weftenrieder, 
who isa very enlightened and juft man, 
and now is prefident of the new literary 
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