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 four ounces of daucus seed, commonly called wild carrot. Boil them gently over the fire for three quarters of an hour, frequently putting the ingredients down with a ladle, then strain the same through a cloth. To each beer quart of this liquor put one pound and a half of good thick molasses. Boil the same gently for three quarters of an hour, scumming it all the time; put it into a pan and cover it till cold, then bottle it for use. Be careful not to cork it too tight. The dose recommended is a moderate tea cupfull in the morning at rising, and the same quantity on going to bed. It was continued by the communicator till he had taken nineteen or twenty wine bottles of it; during the period of taking it he abstained from animal food, fish, greens, or high seasoned sauces.

[By Henry Cline, Esq. Surgeon. Com. Board of Agriculture, 1805.]

IT is the intention of this communication to ascertain in what instances crossing the breed of cattle is proper, and in what prejudicial; and the principles upon which the propriety of it depends.

It has been generally understood that the breed of animals is improved by crossing with the largest males. This opinion has done much mischief, and would have done more if it had not been counteracted by the desire of selecting animals of the best forms and proportions which are rarely to be met with in those of the largest size. Experience has proved that crossing has only succeeded in an eminent degree in those instances in which the females were larger than in the usual proportion of the females to the males; and that it has generally failed when the males were disproportionally large.