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and are finer when dug up in spring than at any other period.

Milch cows, and such horses and cattle as require most care, are housed wovember; but December is the usual month for housing cattle regularly. Sheepgthr‘ive better by being left out all winter; but they require to be fed, and it is necessary to have a shelter Without a roof, to guard against the cold Winds and snow drift.

Black cattle are generally smaller than in England : a good 0X will weigh from eight to nine hundred

pounds, but the common run will not exceed six or

seven hundred. The beef is usually very fine and , I

tender.

Sheep thrive remarkably well; but, until lately, very little care was observed in improving the breed. The late Attorney-General, Mr Johnston, kept a flock of fine sheep, equal to any in England, on his excellently cultivated farm near Charlotte Town ; and since that time, other farmers are following the example, from observing that the quantity of wool they pro- duced was more than double the weight yielded by the common breed. The mutton, however, of the old breed, is usually fat and well—flavoured.

Swine seem to thrive here as well as in any coun- try, and the pork brOught to Charlotte Town by the farmers, is probably, equal in general to that met with in the Irish market; but from want of proper care in rearing, and possessing a good breed of pigs, one half the number raised on the island are tall,

long-snouted animals, resembling greyhounds nearly