86 BREEDING. 



in a great degree upon the conditions we prov 

 ceed to explain. Considerations upon this 

 subject are so unavoidab!}^ complex, and de- 

 pend so mucli upon contingencies, that a 

 nicety of discrimination is upon ail occasions 

 necessary how to proceed in the bqsiqes^ be- 

 fore us. 



The difference of a mare foaUng early or 

 late in the season ; her remaining fallow, 

 or having taken the horse and renewed her 

 conception; the forward growth nnd rapid 

 iiliprovement, or puny and backward state of 

 the foal, are all conditional matters upon 

 which variations are to be formed. For in- 

 stance, where the mare has dropped her 

 foal early in the season, has again taken the 

 horse, and the foal at her foot has improved 

 properly, and acquired the desired strength 

 apd size previous to the commencement of 

 severe weather; such foal should be taken 

 fiom the dam so soon as the decay of pas- 

 ture perceptibly occasions a reduction in the 

 supply of milk ; and this separation becomes^ 

 the more immediately necessary upon an esta- 

 blished truth, that thelongerafoalispermittec| 



