"The names commonly given to the different states of the horse are these:--The new-born one is called a _foal_, the male being a _colt foal_, and the female a _filly foal_. After being weaned, the foals are called simply _colt_ or _filly_, according to the sex, which the colt retains until broken in for work, when he is a _horse_ or _gelding_ which he retains all his life; and the filly is then changed into _mare_. When the colt is not castrated he is an _entire colt_; which name he retains until he serves mares, when he is a _stallion_ or _entire horse_; when castrated he is a _gelding_; and it is in this state that he is chiefly worked. A mare, when served, is said to be _covered by_ or _stinted to_ a particular stallion; and after she has borne a foal she is a _brood mare_, until she ceases to bear, when she is a _barren mare_ or _eill mare_; and when dry of milk, she is _yeld_. A mare, while big with young, is _in foal_. Old stallions are never castrated." Those of the pig are as follows-- "When new-born, they are called _sucking pigs_, or simply _pigs_; and the male is a _boar pig_, the female _sow pig_. A castrated male, after it is weaned, is a _shot_ or _hog_. Hog is the name mostly used by naturalists, and very frequently by writers on agriculture; but, as it sounds so like the name given to young sheep, (hogg,) I shall always use the terms pig and swine for the sake of distinction. The term _hog_ is said to be derived from a Hebrew noun, signifying 'to have narrow eyes,' a feature quite characteristic of this species of animal. A spayed female is a _cut sow pig_. As long as both sorts of cut pigs are small and young, they are _porkers_ or _porklings_. A female that has not been cut, and before it bears young, is an _open sow_; and an entire male, after being weaned, is always a _boar_ or _brawn_. A cut boar is a _brawner_. A female that has taken the boar is said to be _lined_; when bearing young she is a _brood sow_; and when she has brought forth pigs she has _littered_ or _farrowed_, and her family of pigs at one birth form a _litter_ or _farrow_ of pigs." The diseases of cattle, horses, pigs, and poultry, are treated of--their management in disease, that is, as well as in health. And it is one of the merits of Mr Stephens that he has taken such pains in getting up his different subjects--that he seems as much at home in one department of his art as in another; and we follow him with equal confidence in his description of field operations, of servant-choosing and managing, of cattle-buying, tending, breeding, feeding, butchering, and even cooking and eating--for he is cunning in these last points also. His great predecessor Tucker prided himself, in his "_Five hundred points_," in mixing up huswifry with husbandry:--