640 Live Stock Properties to be regarded in Size* 



between an ox of fifty ftone, carrying thirty in roafting pieces, and twenty in coarfe 

 boiling ones, and another carrying thirty in the latter, and twenty in the former.* 

 Jc muft undoubtedly be an object of great importance, to have thofe parts which 

 are of I ut little value, as fmall and of as little weight as poffible. It may alfo be 

 advantageous in particular cafes, to attend to the nature of the confumption in the 

 ihapc of the animals, in the manner that has been juft feen, as, where fome parrs 

 are mo;e in demand than others, and confequently fell at much higher prices, that 

 fhape which is moft favourable for this purpofc mould be more attended to. 



lr is probable, however, that it is on the juft proportion and fymmetry of parts 

 in the animals that arc employed for the purpofe of the breeder, that improvement 

 in this as well as other important points muft depend. And of courfe it feems 

 not improbable, but that the excellence of the moft valuable points in all the dif 

 ferent forts of fiockmay in fome degree bear a proportion to the good nefs of the 

 form in the animals. 



That fine fullnefs of fnape which has been diftinguifhed by breeders under the 

 term * beautv of form,&quot; has been confidered as difti.nct from that of &quot; utility of 

 form,&quot; and toconfift in a more perfect rounding of the parts, and a lefs appear 

 ance of bony protuberance. But though it mud conftantly be a very defirable 

 object to bring the fhape of the animals as near perfection as the difficult nature 

 of the bufinefs will admit, yet utility, or what may in other words be termed 

 profit, mud be principally conlidered, as being the immediate object of the flock- 

 farmer. 



In the fize of animals there is a variety which admirably adapts them to the 

 variations of foil, climate, fituation, and food, as well as the different views and 

 purpofes of the farmer. 



The long agitated queftion, whether large or fmall-fized animals are the moft 

 profitable, or pay the grazing farmer the moft money for the food they confume, is 

 not yet fully decided ; nor is it probably capable of being eafily afcertained, on 

 account of the great difficulty of making experiments under an exact (imilarityof 

 circumftances, in regard to breed, pafture, food, expofure, and other points ; and 

 wha: is the difference in the growth, orincreafe of weight, or of labour, between 

 large and fmall animals, in proportion to the quantity of food which they take for 



* Young s Eafte rn Tour, TO!. I. 



