The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . ason, but they generally fill on theservants of Russian noblemen, whose care-lessness towards their servants comfort, isakin to barbarity. It must not be forgotteneither, that three-fourths of these accidentsare attributable to the abuse of spirituousliquors. The passion of the people forbrandy, sets at defiance every warning, andin winter it becomes more than usually fatal. The Search after Rest. I?Y J. CUNNINGIIAM. When first the Dove, afar and wide, Skimmed the dark waters oer,To seek, beyond the heaving tide, Afgreen and peaceful shore,— No le
The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book . ason, but they generally fill on theservants of Russian noblemen, whose care-lessness towards their servants comfort, isakin to barbarity. It must not be forgotteneither, that three-fourths of these accidentsare attributable to the abuse of spirituousliquors. The passion of the people forbrandy, sets at defiance every warning, andin winter it becomes more than usually fatal. The Search after Rest. I?Y J. CUNNINGIIAM. When first the Dove, afar and wide, Skimmed the dark waters oer,To seek, beyond the heaving tide, Afgreen and peaceful shore,— No leafy bough, nor life-like thing, ({use mid the swelling main—?The lone liird sought, with faltering wing. The hallowed Ark again And ever thus mans heart hath traced A lone anil weary round;But never yet, mid earths dark waste, A resting place hath found. The peace for which his spirit yearns Is ever Bought in vain,Till, like the lime, it homeward turns. And finds its God again. [JV. Y. E. Post No. 8. The Anglesey, or North Wales Ox. 249. THE ANGLESEY, OR NORTH WALES OX. The Anglesey cattle are small and black, with moderate bone, deep chest, round barrel,high and spreading haunches; the face flat, with the horns long, and almost invariablyturning somewhat upwards. The hair is apparently coarse, but the hide is mellow; theyare peculiarly hardy, easy to rear, and well disposed to fatten. The young of this breed,have little more than hay-tea and gruel, with the common broth of the house to subsiston; and when reared, are in a manner totally abandoned; their best treatment being, oator barley-straw, scarcely enough to keep them from starving, while folded in an unshel-tered yard; the face of the country and the nature of the soil affording but little provisionfor winter feeding. Such treatment would deteriorate any breed, less hardy than that ofthe Island of Anglesey; the practice of the middling and small farmers, and indeed manyof the largest, of selling off their best yearli
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