EREEDING. 101 



how necessary it is to acquire occasional aid 

 from the frequent interpositions of economy ^ 

 I earnestly recommend the culture of them, 

 upon that score, (in those parts of the king- 

 dom not so favourably adapted to breeding) 

 as a very useful and profitable associate with 

 other food for brood mares, foals, and grow- 

 ing colts, in-» severe or long winters, when 

 hay and corn are at an exceeding high price 

 from a general failure in the crop, or an in- 

 different season for the harvest. ' 



From this unavoidable deviation we return 

 to the business of Weaning, a matter that 

 will be in some degree more easily reconciled 

 by permitting the foal to feed with the mare 

 for a few days upon .the dry food previous 

 to the entire separation. The question natu- 

 rally, and indeed generally, arising at this pe- 

 riod, is not, what food is the most salutary 

 for the subject in question ; but, which is 

 the kind of food most applicable to the sen- 

 sations of the owner? Though were reason 

 or prudence consulted, that food would be 

 adopted most adequate to the probable value 

 of the foal ; for, notwithstanding alKthat can 

 be urged in the defence of breeding systema-^ 



