82 BREEDING. 



bleak winds and frigid showers, but before 

 there is a single blade of exuberant pasture 

 to subsist the dam, or encourage the growth 

 of twelve months tedious expectation. 



From what has been so lately and re- 

 peatedly urged, respecting the properties of 

 different kinds of aliment, and its effect 

 upon the aliment system, little more can be 

 required to prove, that whenever a necessity 

 absolutely exists for subsisting the mare en- 

 tirely upon dry food^ the secretion of milk 

 must be mevitably reduced, and tlie im- 

 provement of the foal proportionably ob- 

 structed. Taking this, then, as a matter 

 universally admitted, and, in fact, what no 

 man living will attempt to disprove, we may 

 naturally conclude no rci,tional investiga- 

 tor of truth and consistency will ever deviate 

 so much from the line of his own in- 

 terest, as to promote the propagation of 

 what must, at the time of its birth, be in 

 a great degrt^e deprived of its most natural 

 means of existence ; a deficiency not in his 

 power to supply by any adequate substitute 

 whatever* 



