90 BREEDING. 



tingencies before raentioned may render it 

 unavoidably necessary in the earliest month 

 of the winter, or protract it to the latest in 

 the spring ; Avhich must, after all that cau 

 be offered in print, depend entirely upon the 

 discretion and interest of the parties more 

 immediately concerned, 



Wa^ang, for those reasons, farther ani^ 

 madversion respecting the time, we advert to 

 the 7nanner of effecting a change, sometimes 

 attended with difficulty, but seldom or never 

 with danger, particularly when regulated by 

 due attention to circiwistunces, season, states 

 and condition ; considerations that never 

 escape the eye of vigilance, and generally 

 insure their own reward. Towards the con- 

 clusion of the year, the foal acquires, by in- 

 stinct and observation^ some relish for pas- 

 ture, but unluckily begins to enjoy it just ^t 

 its autumnal declination, when long dreary 

 nights, damp fogs, and frequent rains have 

 succeeded the eiihvening rays of the genial 

 sun, depriving it of its former substance 

 and verual sweetness ; at this critical period 

 all nature undergoes a visible alteration, 



