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lnn which is productive of the best cattle, though not the least extensive. A second mode recommended by Dr. Deane, is to take the calf from the cow the next day after it is calvcd, and let it have only two teats of the cow to suck during the first week, three during the second, and all du- ring the third and fourth ; and in this way, he says they will be fatter in the end than ifthey had all at first. The teats which are not given them should be previously milked. a

Mowbray says “the calf may be sold (or taken away from the cow) as scan as it has drawn offthe beastings, or first milk, unless any coring or defect in the cow’s udder or teats may render it desirable for the calf to suck a few days, in order that the action may clear ofl'any obstructions, for which the butting of the calf’s head is generally the best remedy. If intended to be fattened for the butcher, it must be kept ina pen, particularly dry and clean, sunk- led twice a day at regular hours, always have the first, which is the thinnest of the milk, and not be permitted to overcharge its stomach. Lumps of soft chalk are u- sually placed for the calf to lick, as an ab- sorbent to neutralize those acidities engen- ered in the stomach from feeding on milk. tseldom pays to fatten a calf beyond ten rtwelve weeks.

Weaning and rearing Calres.—-A calf ay be weaned by being gradually accus- med to suck milk in a pail throsgh the tigers. Many are reared on very little ilk mixed with hay-tea, linseed or other ops ; fed an straw in the winter, and in miner on the common—such cannot be xpected to turn to much account. The st cattle are reared from the teats well intered in good 'shelter, an'l full fe 1, un- 'l they attain their proper growth.— 'armth ‘ and dry, lodging are of the ut- ost consequence to the improvement of young animals. . Calves may,- however, reared to good prolit by being suffered suck a very moderate quantity daily, e bulk of their food consisting of skim- ed milk thickened with out or wheat- eal; their winter food being carrots or weedish-turnips sliced. and oat-straw, ith a small quantity of hay daily.

Tommy Buck was brought up to take re of seventeen cows, belonging to his ther; to drive a four ox team with Tih, e old mare, at the end of it ; cut wood in ie winter, and raise grain in the summer. utalas! at the perilous age of sixteen a ncin'g master came into the village, and ommy by dint of persuading, persuaded ' honest old father to permit him to sub- l'ibe, and instead of chanting obsolete lm tunes in the chimney corner upon a 'nter’s evening, pumps, ruffles and a fid- " reigned in their stead.” In lieu of 'l, pigeon wings and “right and left”

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en and Tib were left to “chew the cud” of supperless loneliness. Tommy’s ideas were raised, and his wits outright descend- ed from his head to his heels, leaving his upper story to let. Straightwaya ball was had, and Tommy shipped‘the shell ofa fa- shionable, and wore gloves. and fell in love. True, be was rather awkward in mannerisms at first ; but then he sported a smart toe, and acquired ease and impu- dence—and eventually, by activity and toe and heel exertion, capered into the good gracas of Molly Reed, who could weave sixteen yards of shirting per diem. 'l‘om- my then set up for a beau after ladies’ own hearts, and went to town to sell gown pat- terns as apprenticei [being above driving the oxen in partnership with Tib,] determi- ned to become a mare/tan]. And so he did —and his father died, leaving him-the bulk of his fortune, when'I‘ommy determined to do two things. viz. cut Molly and keep a Curricle The first was the most difficult, but he had learned “a thing or two,” and after a due quantity of tears on her part, the sepanation was affected and the curri- cle purchased. Tib, the only mare, the cows and oxen, were translated into two greys, and Tommy from a ploughboy to a line gentleman. The farm, milking pails, pigs, hens and ducks, were changed to cash and style, and the balance over this 12e- cessary expenditure invested in the house ofTommy Buck, Landshark, 8:. Co. And then Tommy went to the Springs and ga- med, to the theatre and drank. to his count- ing house and whistled, and these were beautiful times. Tommy’s credit was good, and he used it ; his cash was plenty, and he spent it ; his health fine, and he gave it a trial. Who like Tommy ? He made love anew to a city belle, but the sly old foit‘ of a father said nay. He asked a poet to write doleful ditties, and‘he said yea, and he paid him.- The sonnets were fullof arts and cruels—and the girl married a- nother. Tommy sighed and drank, and gamed and whistled, “to drive dull care away,” and then failed. Tib kicks up her heels in scorn at him. Molly sends four chubby children to school, and loves her husband His lady—love of sonnet reading memory does not notice him in the street, and Tommy has shipped to go to India at ten dollars per month in the forecastle of a ship.

.Moral.—Pigs and cows and ducks and hens and old Tib with a good farm and mo- nev at interest, are better than greys and cui‘ricLes, and gaming. and theatres, and style ; unless one prefers to go to India at ten dollars per month before the mast—and so ends our story.

0 O I. O N I A In. From the JV'cw York u‘ilbion.

In the absence of English ad vices we re- vert to the never ending subject of Cana-

te heard on the barn-floor, and the ox-

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The late session of the Legislature has terminated in the usual unsatisfactory man- ner. The concessions of the King’s Go- vernment have been invariably met with new demands, and these new demands have not only conceded to make way for others still more exorbitant and unreasonable, un- til it became apparent to all the world that it was not reform, but revolution, that was aimed at by the agitators. Still the agita» tors kept up a show of loyalty and attach- ment to the British constitution as by law established, and to pacify them, Crown re- venues were given up, Judges suspended, Members of Parliament expelled, and At- tornies General dismissed. At last when little more could be obtained, the rand denouément took place and accor ingly an attempt was made during the last ses- siou to subvert the constitution, by calling on Great Britain to make the Legislative Council elective. Now, the Legislative Council is analogous to the House of Lords a branch of the Legislature which was by our ancestors wisely placed midway be- tween the people and the Crown, to resist licentiousness on the One side, and tyranny on the other. ()n this happy equipoise hangs the great charm of the British con- stitution—it is the preservative principle which, by its wholesome and salutary ac- tion, saves from .decay, and renders the harmony of the system perpetual. Yet this beautiful system must be changed ! At whose instigation forsooth'! Why the descendants of a few French settlers on the banks of the River St. Lawrence, in North America-—men who are for the most part ignorant of the English language --men who are victims of the worst pre-

judices—who will expel amember from

their owu body without form or trial; or even a hearing—and who voted a gentle- man out of a public office which be filled with great credit, because he had an Eng- lish name, It is also a fact that one of the members of this body cannot write his own name, and when he took his seat as a. Senetor and a Lawgiver, actually made his cross at the Speaker’s table! This, gentle reader, happened at Quebec, anno domini 1833. Yet those are the men who now seek to mend the Constitution of Eng- land, that stupendous fabric of human in- tellect which Mr. Fox pronounced to be the aggregated wisdom of ten centuries. The object of the advocates of the elec- tive system--a system which, however ne- cessary in a republican form of government is directly hostile to that of a monarchy—— is sufficiently obvious. The great bulk of Lower Canada proper, consists of French inhabitants, and as a matter of course, e- lect French Deputies : the Legislative Council, on the cantrary. being appointed by the Crown, becomes a body of a. differ- ent nature, and therefore checks the an- nomalies and extravagancies of the other