PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE, 



PART THE FIFTH. 



METHODS OF BREEDING, REARING, AND MANAGING 

 DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 



SECT. XI. 



Live-Stock. Neat Cattle. Sheep. Horses. 



LIVE-STOCK. Importance of -Great Attention to Furthet Improvement of 

 neceffciry Additional FaBs and Experiments wanting foi Circumftanccs 

 to be attended to in Shelter and warmth, with a high degree of Fertility 

 of P aft lire ufeful Syftems of PraBice purfued in, different CroJJing the 

 Breeds Suppofed Advantages and DiJ &quot;advantages of Though ufeful Jkould 

 be pra&ifedwith Caution Injury cafily done by it when injudiciou/ly per 

 formed Various Proofs of- Breeding in-and-in Advantages of this Me 

 thod What neceffary to be regarded in Principal ObjeB of the Farmer in, 

 Profit Form of Animal moft. proper for Properties to be regarded in 

 Shape What neceffary in Moft perfect Kind of- Which moft advantage 

 ous in the View of the Grazier The moft perfect probably beft Size - 

 Queftion concerning not fully fettled Opinions differ from the Quantity of 

 Food confumed not being well afcertained in A Number of f mall Animals 

 con fume lefs than of large ones Mr. Knight s Opinion favourable to large 

 Size for fattening Confumption of Food not in proportion to Size Ad- 



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