8 BREEDING. 



mare, that, destitute of judgment, and deaf 

 to remoii 3trance, he rank.-^ in fm imagination J 

 the produce a prodigi/ even in embryo, and 

 proceeds regularly, year after year, increaet«» 

 ing the number, without a single addition to 

 the improvement of the species, 



These are the kind of hypothetical breeders, 

 (and great plenty there are) who calcu- 

 late doubly in error, by calculating upon 

 projit^ without a single contingent reflectioi:^ 

 upon /y.^6; ridiculously supposing a mare in 

 foal, or after delivery, can support her own 

 frame, and that of her offspring, upon /cs? 

 food tlian any other horse or mare in constant 

 work ; and begin breeding under an idea that 

 it will be attended with little or no expense. 

 Thu.N totally inadequate (or indifferent) to the 

 generating oijlesh, blood, and borie by the ef- 

 fect of nutrition, they penuriously and inhu- 

 manly adopt a kind of temporary poverty, and 

 after a year or two of artificial famine seem 

 greatly surprized that air and exercise alone 

 have not produced a colt or fiily, of equal 

 size, strength, and perfection with those who 

 have omitted no one expense or necessary 

 acquisition that could in the least contribute^ 



