Star.
London, England, 1830-08-05 00:00:00

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EXTRACTS FROM THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL
OF AGRICULTURE.

OX TUX USES Or SALT AS A CONDIXICXT FOX DOMESTIC
ANIMALS.

In Spain, where the fines: wool in the world is produced, a certain
quantity of 'sit is given to the sheep, and from which it has been
Inferred by some the superiority of the wool arises.

All the quadrupeds of North America, observes a writer in an
early number of the Quarterly Review. both wild and tame, native
and imported, have a sort of instinctive passion for ash ; and as if
astute bad intended that this passion should not be without he ob-
ject, there are interspersed all over the Continent springs of brine
and earthy rocks impregnated with saline matter.

Its usefulness to domestic animals seems to have attracted =doe
at an early period. Virgil directs salt herbage to be given to cows,
to produce more milk, and Pliny recoaimends the same application
of salt pastures, both for giving milk, and for making cheese ; he
also recommends the giving of it to sheep.

Mr. Curwen recommends very strongly the giving of salt to sheep,
and seems to have improved upon the practice then prevalent. He
recommends four ounces per week to each sheep, given as twice. if
feeding on dry pastures ; but, when feeding on turnips es other blia
culent food, he says it should be given them without stint.
" The practice of giving salt to sheep," observes /Ir. Arthur
Young, " is proper; and it is remarkable that this custom should
be common management in almost every country in the world, Eng.
land excepted. It certainly tends to keep any dock healthy. If
land be wet or moist, or otherwise unfavourable, the evil may be
considerably remedied by the practice of giving bah. Sheep should
have as much salt as they will eat."

A NEW lIISTRION.-A provincial theatre in the
west of Ireland lately announced the fohowing bill of faze t—bion.
day will be perfutmed the Boner'. Open; the part of Films by
Mr. Sweeny, with a hornpipe in fetters ; being his Gest appearance
sines tie pet mit edgaei.

An ANECDOTE, ILLUSTRATING the COOLNESS and
FIRMNESS of h4s PRESENT MAJESTY,
WHEW IN CONSIDERABLE AVID UNEXPECTED DANGER, WHEN
♦ ♦ERY YOUNG MAN.

In the year 1787, when the King—at that time about twenty-
two years of age, war Captain of the regalia, and in the
fleet under the command of Admiral Sawyer, who was then
at Quebec, Lord Dorchester, the GOveTOOr, determined on
receiving the son of his Royal Muter in a manner due to
his rank. On the occasion, therefore, of the Prince's coming on
shore to dine with his Lordship at the Castle, the troops were all
ordered out, and a guard prepared to receive him. A young officer,
who had to superintend the discharge of some pieces of cannon on
the Prince's landing, stood so long observing his Royal Highna►'s
approach, that he forgot his own particular duty till the Prince WM
'within notmore than three paces of the musk of one of the guns,
and exactly in a line with it, when, confused and alarmed at his neg.
loco of duty, he hurriedly ordered the gun to be fired. The Royal
Captain was in an instant enveloped in the disccharge ; a portion of
the gun-wadding struck his Royal Highness's hat, which he carried
in his hand. The young officer, supposing he had killed him, ex-
claimed, " Oh, my GOD, I have shot the Prince !" and withdiffieulty
supported himself in the arms of our gallant informant, who that day
commatAled the guard. His anxiety, which, as well as every one
present, was great, was the next moment relieved by observing the
Prince's head rather sternly elevated above the rolling cloud of
smoke, his eye firmly and inquiringly fixed on the young man ;
and when, even before the smoke had altogether dispersed. he be-
came satisfied with his scrutiny, and turning—the first movement be
had made since the commencement of the accident—to General
Hope, his Royal Highness coolly remarked, " Oh, I perceive—a
little too late ; " and then calmly resumed his course along the line
to the castle of Quebec.