In the Edinburgh Journal of Natural History we find the following passage: "We are assured by M. Yvart, that in Auvergne fat soups are given to cattle, especially when sick or enfeebled, for the purpose of invigorating them. The same practice is observed in some parts of North America, where the country people mix, in winter, fat broth with the vegetables given to their cattle, in order to render them more capable of resisting the severity of the weather. These broths have been long considered efficacious by the veterinary practitioners of our own country, in restoring horses which have been enfeebled through long illness. It is said by Peall to be a common practice in some parts of India to mix animal substances with the grain given to feeble horses, and to boil the mixture into a sort of paste, which soon brings them into good condition, and restores their vigour. Pallas tells us, that the Russian boors make use of the dried flesh of the hamster, reduced to powder, and mixed with oats, and that this occasions their horses to acquire a sudden and extraordinary degree of _embonpoint_. Anderson relates, in his History of Iceland, that the inhabitants feed their horses with dried fishes when the cold is very intense, and that these animals are extremely vigorous, though small. We also know, that in the Feroë Islands, the Orkneys, the Western Islands, and in Norway, where the climate is still very cold, this practice is also adopted; and it is not uncommon, in some very warm countries, as in the kingdom of Muskat, in Arabia Felix, near the Straits of Ormuz, one of the most fertile parts of Arabia; fish and other animal substances are there given to the horses in the cold season, as well as in times of scarcity." In Norway, or at least in some districts of that country, the cattle are housed during the long winter months, and fed partially upon hay, but more plentifully on a kind of diet, which, strange and disgusting as we may think it, is said to be much relished. This consists of a thick gelatinous soup, made by boiling the heads of fish, and mixing horse-dung with the broth; so that the boat of a Norwegian farmer supplies not only himself and his family with the staple portion of winter subsistence, but his cows also.