BREEDING. 8S 



and incapable of imbibing instruction from 

 the nicest laws of nature, will be regulated 

 implicitly by the dictates of tlieir own mer- 

 cenary sensations ; affecting to believe, that 

 the mare, producing a foal every year, will 

 continue her stock equally strong, healthy, 

 and valuable, with those that are favoured 

 with occasional and necessary intermissions. 

 This is not the fact ; attentive observation, 

 accurate estimate, and impartial decision, will 

 clearly prove such succession to degenerate in 

 bone, size, strength, and value, when pro- 

 duced from the same mare for a series of 

 years without the least cessation ; Avhile, on 

 the contrary, a single years fallow in every 

 three or four^ will, upon comparison, criti- 

 cally made, prove in the aggregate decidedly 

 in favour of the breeder. 



Having gone regularly tUrou^h every 

 branch of information at all appertaining to 

 the propagation and preservation of stock, 

 we now come to the time and manner of 

 weaning ; a matter that must ever be regu- 

 lated much more bj'^ the circumstances of the 

 case than the state of the ^^ason, depending 



