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390&#93; 39 o] BUL strewed over ; which will invite thenjiolie down. — Mr. Campbell js of opinion, and we fully agree with him, that rest contributes to o cattle much sooner ; and likewise that combing and carding their hides, every day, promotes their thriving more than equal to the small portion of time thus con- sumed. Lastly, be found the greatest difficulty in prevailing up- on the. people, to wliose care the bullocks were committed, to fol- low strictly his directions, and to abolish the practice of giving them . tpo gcea't portions of food at a time. Thus, the animal frequently be- comes disgusted; his appetite is impaired, and the food is was — The hay is to be cut ' once ; or, if not very weighty, twice along, and three times across the truss, so as to be in squares of eight or ten inches : in this state the cattle eat and digest it more readily, while the fattening is considerably expe- dited. BULL-RUSH, or Club-grass; the Sdrpus Idcustri's, L. is an in- nous plant, frequently found in rivers, pools, and fens. It at- tains a height of from five to twelve feet, and is, near the root, about the thickness of a ringer. Its spikes are dark-chesnut, or dark-brown ■with a tinge of red. When fodder is exhausted, cattle w^Jftveupori this plant; an that purpose it may be made into Lj Goats and sw}ne cat it, but • refused by cows and sheep, ■'veden, cottages are matched; and, in Britain, pack--.;. biles are stuffed, with the bull-rush. Bot- toms of chairs, and mats, ar wise very commonly made of it, and their liner or coarser quality — From the pith, or medullary slab- BUR stance of this vegetable, a kind of paper may be prepared, bv pressing it, and afterwards giving it con- re, by a proper addition of size. BURDENS, or heavy loads, can- not fail to be injurious to the lui because the person carrying them is obliged to inspire and expel the air with greater force than is de- signed by Nature. Those who, either from imprudence, or a mis- taken economy, exceed the limits or their strength, by doing at once what should be performed at two different times, expose themselves to various degrees of danger. Thus persons supporting heavy burdens, as porters, colliers, and day-la- bourers, in general, by over-strain- ing tile tender vessels of the breast and lungs, frequently become lia- ble to blocd-spltting, asthma, rup- tures, pleurisies, 5cc. This fatality is apparently generated in early yournj from an absurd and hurtful notion, that the children of work- ing people should be timely accus- tomed to hard labour. Every hu- mane master of a family, as well as the more judicious neighbour.; of cottagers, ought seriously to warn those bold adventurers of the immi- nent danger to which they expose themselves by such imprudence. Young females, in particular, should be stopped in the streets, wheu walking with heavy loads on their heads; a measure no less necessary than that of removing an infant from the precipice of a window. From the pressure of such bur on the vessels of the brain, young persons become stupified; an effect which is obvious to every accurate ■ ver. In countries, where the* inhabitants carry all their v and other commodities on the 1 many .. ued with scrophtl complaint; :