BREEDING. 213 



Morocco, and China, are of a galloway size. To re- 

 turn, however, some beautiful brown turkeys I have 

 at this moment, that were well fed and housed from 

 the shell, but which, owing to their having been 

 hatched late in the autumn, are not much larger than 

 a goodly pheasant, although of perfect shape, and 

 already devoted to maternal cares. Had they not 

 been well tended they would all most certainly have 

 perished. It must, then, have been the want of more 

 genial weather that kept them dwarfed. What that 

 intelligent advocate of the Acclimatisation Society 

 (Mr. Buckland) would say on this head, I should be 

 curious to know. 



Confirmatory, however, of this strain of reasoning, 

 Youatt, writing of the cows, says : " Difference of 

 climate gradually wrought some change, and particu- 

 larly in their bulk. The rich pastures of Sussex 

 fattened the ox of that district, with his superior size 

 and weight. The plentiful but not luxuriant herbage 

 of the north of Devon produced a somewhat smaller 

 and more active animal, while the occasional priva- 

 tion of Wales lessened the bulk and thickened the 

 hide of the Welsh runt." 



Good keep in early youth undoubtedly has a great 

 deal to do with the expansion of an animal's frame, 

 and so doubtless the converse holds good too. There 

 is a terrier in this town, that forms quite a study, 

 broad of beam (I remember him such a slender 

 puppy), with grand loins, head well on and lively, on 

 short fleshy legs, the property of a neighbour. I 

 have been compelled involuntarily to note that dog's 

 development, fed doubtless as he must be on the best 



