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and the change is as severe in its effects 

 upon the animal as th^ vegetative part of 

 the world/ 



In this general revolution, the expected 

 and former nutriment from the dam becomes 

 not only reduced in quantify, but impaired in 

 qualit\)\ divested in a great degree of its 

 balsamic and nourishing property, it wisely 

 points out to the foal the feeling necessity 

 of an adequate substitute for such defi- 

 ciency ; under so predominant a sensation as 

 hunger, he readily submits to an alteration in 

 the means of subsistence, and in a few days 

 becomes perfectly reconciled to the food 

 allotted him, provided it is applicable to the 

 state of his infancy, good in its kind, and 

 properly selected t^o gratify the calls of 

 jiature. 



Of these there are various kinds, that have 

 each their different advocates, whether in 

 oats^ bran^ chaff] barley, wheat, hay, or strait'^ 

 and each advocate loaded with reasons of 

 the first .importance, and self-consequence, 

 (regulated perhaps by pecuniary sensation) 

 to justify the opinion he has formed : but ^s 



